William Hale Hale

William Hale Hale (12 September 1795 - 27 November 1870) was an English churchman and author,Archdeacon of London in the Church of England, and Master of Charterhouse School.

He was son of John Hale, a surgeon, of Lynn, Norfolk; his father died when he was about four years old. He became a ward of James Palmer, treasurer of Christ's Hospital, and from 1807 to 1811 went to Charterhouse School. On 9 June 1813 he matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. in 1817, and M.A. in 1820, being placed in the second class in classics and mathematics. He was ordained deacon in December 1818, and served his first curacy under George Gaskin at St Benet Gracechurch in London. In 1821 he was appointed assistant curate to Charles Blomfield at the church of St Botolph Bishopsgate, and when Blomfield became in 1824 the bishop of Chester Hale became his domestic chaplain, a position which he retained on the bishop's translation to London in 1828.

Hale was preacher at Charterhouse from 1823 until his appointment to the mastership in February 1842. He was prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral from 1829 to 1840, was archdeacon of St Albans from 17 June 1839 till his appointment to the archdeaconry of Middlesex in August 1840, and was then installed on 12 November 1842 archdeacon of London. In 1842 he also became Master of Charterhouse, and from 1847 to 1857 held the vicarage of St Giles Cripplegate.

Hale was a Tory and an opponent of reform. He resisted the passage of the Union of Benefices Bill, under which some of the ancient city churches were pulled down, and the proceeds of the sales of the sites applied to the erection of churches in more populous districts, and the proposed abolition of burials within towns. Bishop Blomfield used to say that ‘he had two archdeacons with different tastes, one (Sinclair) addicted to composition, the other (Hale) to decomposition.’

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