Alfred Ernest William Hazel (20 February 1869 – 20 August 1944) was a British

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(MP) and legal academic at the

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Background

He was educated at

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Wesleyan School and

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before going to study

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and Law at

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. He graduated with first-class honours and won the

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. He was called to the

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in 1898, and was appointed to a Fellowship in Law at Jesus College in the same year.

Politics

He was MP for

between

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(when the Liberal Party won a large majority) and January 1910 (when the Liberal Party lost 125 seats, including West Bromwich). He was re-selected as prospective Liberal candidate for West Bromwich and was to fight a general election expected in 1914/15 which was postponed due to the outbreak of war. When the election eventually took place in 1918, the partners in the Coalition Government decided to endorse his Unionist opponent so he withdrew from the contest. He did not stand for parliament again.

Career outside politics

He was Reader in Constitutional Law at the

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from 1910 to 1926. In 1915, he also became University Lecturer on Criminal Law and the Law of Evidence at Oxford, a position he held until 1922, when he was appointed All Souls Reader in English Law (until 1933). Between 1915 and 1919, he was Deputy Controller in the Priority Department of the

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. He was appointed a Commander of the

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in the

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for his efforts during the First World War. In 1925, he was appointed Principal of Jesus College, and in 1930 he was appointed to the

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. He was also Recorder of

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between 1912 and 1938. Some accommodation for students at Jesus College is now named after Hazel.

Personal life

In 1919, he married Ethel Percival, with whom he had one son. He died in Oxford in 1944.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hazel, Alfred 1869 births 1944 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1906–1910 Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford Commanders of the Order of the British Empire People educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham Principals of Jesus College, Oxford 20th-century King's Counsel