The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-12 00:00:00

The Lord Mayor.

Warren Stormes Hale, Esq , alderman, citizen and tallow-
chandler, Lord Mayor, is a native of Hertfordshire, in:which
county the Hale family were settled prior to the reign of
Henry VIII, One member of it (Richard Hale) who came
to Lmdon in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, to follow com-
mercial pursuits, realised an ample fortune, and, retiring to
his native county, founded a grammar school, which still
exists in the town of Hertford, He became a large landed
proprietor and the heed of a family, which, in subsequent
periods was highly distinguished, several members of it
having different times been chosen as High Sheriffs ani
members of Parliament for the county.

Mr Alderman Hale (who was born in 1791) was the
youngest of a family of seven children ; and, when only a
few months old, had the misfortune to lose his father. At
the early age of 12 years he was sent up to London, where
ho was trained for business, under his elder brother, Mr
Ford Hale, late of Cannon-street, who died a few years
back, and who was a highly-respeeted member of the Cor-
poration for upwards of thirty years, as one of the Common
Council for the Ward of Walbrook. In 1812, Mr Warren
Storm Hale commenced business on his own account, and
by persevering and energetic devotion fur a long series of
years, has attained a commercial position of high rank in
the City, and secured an ample fortune as the reward of his
enterprise and industry.
About the year 1833, certain discoveries and inventions,
the result of scientific investigations by Chevreul and Gay
Lussae, celebrated French chemists, in relation to animal
and vegetable fatty acids, were brought into notice in this
country by a French merchant, and Mr Hale, discerning
the importance of these discoveries, became the first Eng-
lish manufacturer to act upon them. The changes thus
introduced into the manufacture of candles involved the
employment of substances not generally used for such pur-
poses, and their combination by new processes, and the
science of chemistry, and the appliances of machinery en-
tering essentially into these processes, have received much
attention from Mr Hale, and may be said to have been the
main instruments of the success which he has met with.
In conjunction with a sedulous attention to his own pri-
vate pursuits, Mr Hale has ever been characterised by a
readiness and an aptitude for public business which have
occasioned his being, during a long succession of yearn,
selected fur the performance of various local and corporate
functions. Thus, after serving a number of parochial
and other offices, he was chosen, in the year 1825, as a
representative of the Ward of Coleman-street in the Com-
mon Council, and for upwards of thirty 3 ears afterwards
(and until called to assume higher duties) he continued
so fully to enjoy the confidence of his fellow-citiz3ns
that whatever contests took place at the successive
annual elections, he -- Was uniformly re-elected without
the least solicitation on his part; and in the srme sponta-
neous
ours which he has received been bestowed upon him.
Fo rthe and gratifyinglast
ours
Years that Mr Hale was one of the
Common Council he held the honourable office of Deputy to
seven
the Alderman of Coleman-street Ward, his friend, the late
Mr Alderman Hunter, upon whose decease, in 1856, he was
chosen by the unanimous voice of the electors, in a manner
peculiarly honourable and flattering, to the responsible and
I dignified office of Alderman of the Ward with which he
had been so long and intimately connected.
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him as being " especially distinguished in the cause of
education and benevolence ;" and any notice of his ser-
vices, however slight it may be, demands that he should;
be particularly recognised as the originator and succeesfu
promoter in the Corporation of two important educational
establishments, which, while they redound so much to the
honour of the C 4, are the means of conferring immense
advantages upon the public. These institutions are the City
of London School for the gins of respectable citizens and
inhabitants of London, which is now one of the largest
and most celebrated schools in the metropolis, and the
school at Brixton, for the education and maintenance of
one hundred and fifty orphan children of freemed of the
City. Mr Hale has always taken a deep interest in both
these establishments, and from the foundation of the City
of London School, in 1834,:t0 the present time, has been
the chairman of the committee for its management.
From his known interest in such affairs, he has since he
became an alderman, been selected to be one of the com-
mittee of almoners, having the chief management of the
royal foundation of Christ's Hospital, He has also been
chosen by the corporation as one of the six members repre,.
seating them at the Thames Conservancy Board, and
he is, in addition, in the Commission of the Peace for
the county of bliSdlescx, and also for the city of West-
minster. He is likewise director of the Metro-
politan Railway Company, of a the London and Lancashire
Fire and Life Insurance Company, and of the New Zea-
land Banking Corporation.
In the year 1858-9, Mr Alderman Hale efficiently filled
the office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex. His colleage
was Mr Alderman Condor. wile, on account of age and
infirmity, has since retired from public life. As a magis-
straw of the City, Mr Alderman Hale's services aro notice-
able, both for the frequency of his attendance on the
bench, and for the painstaking discrimination which cha-
racterises his administration otjustice.
Such is the biief account of the gentleman whom his
fellow•citizcns, in the exercise of their much-cherished
privilege of choosing their Chief Magistrate, have unani-
mously selected for the high and important (ace of Lord
Mayor for the year ensuing, convinced by a knowledge of
his cir.ructer and qualifications, as well as by experience of
his past services, that the duties which will devolve upon
him in that capacity will be faithfully and honourably per.
formed,— ctly Pros,