Charles Harold Chorley, CB (10 June 1912 – 22 December 1990) was a British lawyer and parliamentary draftsman. Born in 1912, he was the son of Arthur R. Chorley (died 1918) of

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.''Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes'' (1969), p. 455. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, and graduated with a BA in 1933.

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the next year,''Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage'' (1973), p. 2546. he joined the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel in 1938,"Chorley, (Charles) Harold"
''Who Was Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 25 January 2019. and was appointed a Parliamentary Counsel in 1950. Promotion to Second Parliamentary Counsel followed in 1968, but Chorley retired the following year. He had been appointed a Companion of the

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in 1959. Chorley died on 22 December 1990; he was survived by his two children, but his wife had predeceased him (dying in 1980).

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1912 births 1990 deaths Members of the Inner Temple Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford Companions of the Order of the Bath 20th-century English lawyers {{UK-law-bio-stub