Robert Blagden Hale (29 September 1807 – 22 July 1883) was a

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politician. Hale was the son of his namesake, Robert Hale Blagden Hale and Lady Theodosia Eleanor Bourke, daughter of

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. He married Anne Jane, daughter of

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, 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 Lord Worcester to the peerage as

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—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 and, in 1870, the

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