South Yorkshire Times and Express – Saturday 3 January 1953
Obituary
Mr. C. Marshall Hattersley
Sudden Death in Canada
We deeply regret to record the death, which occurred at Edmonton (Canada) on Boxing Day (Friday), of Mr. Charles Marshall Hattersley, M.A., LL.B., who, until he went to Alberta at the end of April, 1952, to take up an appointment in the Attorney-General’s Department of the Government of Alberta, was senior partner in the old-established firm of Mexborough solicitors, Messrs. J. W. and A. E. Hattersley.
Mr. Hattersley, who was 56, leaves a widow, Mrs. E. V. Hattersley, two sons, Messrs. Charles Robert Hattersley (a schoolmaster at Cambridge) and Martin Hattersley (an undergraduate at Clare College, Cambridge), and two daughters, Misses Mary Hope Hattersley (a musician) and Ruth Christine Hattersley (who is in college in Alberta).
Mr. Martin Hattersley flew to Canada on Monday. Mrs. Hattersley and her daughters went out in September to join Mr. Hattersley in Edmonton.
Mr. Hattersley, who was born at “The Beeches,” Swinton, was the son of Mr. John William Hattersley, now living in retirement at Cheltenham, aged 89, and the late Mrs. Catherine Mary Hattersley. He was educated at Harrow, where he was a gold medallist in mathematics, and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he graduated in law.
He was admitted a solicitor in 1923 and joined the family firm. His father, the senior partner, retired in 1923 and on the retirement of his uncle, Mr. A. E. Hattersley, in 1946, he himself became senior partner and retained that position until last April, when he went out to Canada.
Social Credit Expert
Alberta had the first Social Credit Government in the world, and Mr. Hattersley’s deep interest in the Social Credit movement extended over 30 years. He was, indeed, a world-wide figure in the movement and regarded as one of its chief advocates in Britain. He was a member of the Social Credit Co-ordinating Committee of the movement in this country and became one of the foremost authorities on the subject.
He had made several visits to Alberta over a period of years, and it was largely as a result of his specialised knowledge and reputation that he was invited to join the Attorney-General’s Department.
At a meeting of the Mexborough Rotary Club on Monday, the President, Rotarian Bishop, referred to the death with deep regret. He said Mr. Hattersley had been a member of the club for some 30 years. He spoke of Rotarian Hattersley’s vitality and ability and of the many good works for which he had been responsible. He had been a generous, though unobtrusive, supporter of any real worthy cause which had been brought to his notice.
A phrase used by St. Paul—”a workman that needeth not to be ashamed”—seemed to Rotarian Tiptaft to be particularly applicable to Rotarian Hattersley’s active life and high principles. He was completely thorough in all that he did and the enthusiasm with which he tackled everything was an example to all.
Rotarian G. W. Jepps said Rotarian Hattersley was a man anyone could admire. He expressed deep sympathy for Mrs. Hattersley and her daughters, faced with such a severe and sudden bereavement when they were so many miles from the rest of their relations and friends.
Rotarian Bishop mentioned that, thanks to the initiative of Mrs. R. G. Moorman, a cable expressing the sincere sympathy of both the Mexborough Inner Wheel and the Rotary Club had been promptly despatched to Mrs. Hattersley.