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

The Lord Mayor.

Warren Stormes Hale, Esq , alderman, ciiizen 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 London in the reign of Queen ElizAbeto, 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 head of a family, which, in subsequent
pertods was highly distinguished, several members of it
having different times been ohosen as High Sheriffs and

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
he 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-respected 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 for a long series of
years, has attained a commercial position of high rank in
the City, and secured an ampie 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
Lussao, 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 years,
selected for 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 et 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-citizens
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 and gratifying manner have all the subsequent hon-
ours which he has received been bestowed upon him.
For the last seven years that Mr Hale was one of the
Common Council he held the honourable office of Deputy to
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
dignified office of Alderman of the Ward with which ke
had been so long and intimately connected.
During the entire period of Mr Hale's connexion with
the Corporation, his career has been one of singular
activity and usefulness. He has been called to serve on all
the most important committees of that body, of many of
which he has been seleeted to be chairman, and has enjoyed
tke happiness of being the means of eff (sting a large amount
of good for his fellow- citizens of an enduring character.
Mr IlEa:rit, the late
election Governor cf the Bank of England,
in proposing
as alderman, described
him
a s
"especiallyr
distinguished in the cause of
education and benevolence ;" and any notice of his ser-
vices, however slight it may be, debeing l‘l Hale
mands that he shouldi
mportant educational
establisnments, which, while they redound so much to the
be e
promoter
no sotfh et
two
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originator and suoceesfu
honour of the City, are the means of conferring immense
advantages upon the public. These institutions are the City
of London School for the sons of respectable citizens and
inhabitants of London, which is now ons 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 au alderman, been selooted. 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 reprea
Conservancy
he is, in addition, in the Commission of the Peace for
seating them at the Thames Board, and
the county of Middlesex, and also for the city of West-
minster. He is likewise a director of the Metro-
politan Railway Company,of 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 Conder. who, on. account of age and
infirmity, has since retired from piibllo life.. As a magia-
strate of the City, Mr Alderman Hale s services are notice-
able,bench, and for the painstaking discrimination which cha-
racterises his administration of justice.
Such is the brief account of the gentleman whom his
fellow• citizens, in the exercise of their much-cherished
privilege of choosing their Chief Magistrate, have unani-
mously selected for the high and important office of Lord
Mayor for the year ensuing, convinced by a knowledge of
his character and quilifieationsi as will as by experience of
his past services, that the dutiea which will devolve upon
him in that capacity will ba faithfully and honourably pa-
formed.—Ciy Tress,