Harold Chorley
Charles Harold Chorley, CB was a British lawyer and parliamentary draftsman.
Born in 1912, he was the son of Arthur R. Chorley of Leeds. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, and graduated with a BA in 1933. Called to the bar the next year, he joined the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel in 1938, 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 Order of the Bath in 1959.
Chorley died on 22 December 1990; he was survived by his two children, but his wife had predeceased him.
