Robert Blagden Hale (29 September 1807 – 22 July 1883) was a British Conservative politician. Hale was the son of his namesake, Robert Hale Blagden Hale and Lady Theodosia Eleanor Bourke, daughter of

Joseph Bourke Joseph Bourke (9 January 1772 – 3 May 1843) was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. The son of Joseph Bourke, 3rd Earl of Mayo, Archbishop of Tuam from 1782 to 1784, he was educated at Trinity Colleg ...

. He married Anne Jane, daughter of

George Peter Holford George Peter Holford (1767–1839) was an English barrister, politician and author. With a short break 1806–7, he was a Tory Member of Parliament from 1803 to 1826, for a number of constituencies. Holford was an advocate of prison reform. Early ...

, in 1832 and, before her death in 1879, they had five children: Anne Hale (1832–1895); Robert Hale (1834–1907); Matthew Holford Hale (born 1835); Theodosia Hale; and, Georgina Hale. Hale was first elected Conservative MP for West Gloucestershire at a by-election in 1836—caused by the succession of Henry Somerset to the peerage as

Duke of Beaufort Duke of Beaufort (), a title in the Peerage of England, was created by Charles II in 1682 for Henry Somerset, 3rd Marquess of Worcester, a descendant of Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, legitimised son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of So ...

—and held the seat until the 1857 general election when he did not seek re-election. Outside of his political career, Hale was a

Justice of the Peace A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ...

and, in 1870, the High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.

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