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Christopher Michael Henry Shale MBE (23 August 1954 – 25 June 2011) was a British businessman and
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politician. He was chairman of the
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Conservative Association, and a close associate of Prime Minister and local MP
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, who praised him for his "massive contribution to the Conservative Party, both locally and nationally".


Early life

Shale was educated at Great Houghton Preparatory School and
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in
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, he was then commissioned as a
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officer in the
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.


Career

After leaving the army he joined Durdon Smith Communications and then became the chief executive of SGL Communications. In 1990 he then became the founder and managing director of Oxford Resources, a business supply consultancy. Shale was also a director of the
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between 2001 and 2005 and a sponsor of the eurosceptic thinktank Open Europe. In June 2011 he was critical of the British Conservative Party in a strategy document that was leaked to the ''
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'' newspaper, saying that they came across as "graceless, voracious, crass, always on the take".


Personal life

Shale lived in Over Worton, a village near
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in
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with his wife, Nicola "Nikki" (née Burrows). The couple had a son, Alby Shale, and he was stepfather to Nicola's two children from her first marriage to
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, Natalia Yeomans and
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, who in 2020 married
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. Shale died of a heart attack whilst using a portable toilet cubicle at the
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. Prior to the discovery of his body, he had been reported missing for 18 hours.


See also

* List of people who died on the toilet * Toilet-related injuries and deaths


References

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