South Yorkshire Times and Express – Saturday 3 January 1953
Mr. C. Marshall Hattersley
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 wrote three books, “The Community’s Credit,” “This Age of Plenty” and “Wealth, Want and War,” and was also the author of a number of pamphlets and similar works.
From June, 1951, until November of the same year he was on holiday in Alberta and remained in England until his return to Canada in the following April.
From 1939 he had resided at Greno House, Swinton, and his interest in the Swinton and District Nursing Association continued the work begun by his parents and perpetuated in the Mary Hattersley Memorial Home for Nurses in Swinton.
He was a founder-member, past president and honorary life member of Mexborough Rotary Club, a former chairman of the Unemployment Assistance Board’s Appeals Tribunal, clerk to the old Swinton and Mexborough Gas Board (an office also held by his father), a former member of Wath Golf Club, and he also took an active interest in church affairs in Swinton.
Mr. Hattersley was extremely fond of choral singing and, before illness prevented him pursuing the pastime, he made walking one of his chief relaxations. He was a member of the Youth Hostels Association and was never happier than when tramping the Lake District and Derbyshire. He had a serious illness during the war and was obliged to modify the tempo of a very active and busy life.
Mr. Hattersley was a popular and witty after-dinner speaker with a puckish sense of humour.
He was a director of the Mexborough Development Company, the Mexborough Investment Co. Ltd., and Marchman, Ltd.
A memorial service will be held at Mexborough Parish Church next Thursday at 12-30.
ROTARY TRIBUTES.
Members of Mexborough and District Rotary Club stood in silent tribute to Mr. Hattersley at their weekly luncheon on Tuesday.
The President, Rotarian A. J. Bishop, said the news of Rotarian Hattersley’s death had been a great personal shock to them all. He was a founder member and they all realised what a tremendous debt the Club owed to him. They had suffered the loss of a really great Rotarian.
Rotarian C. P. Elphick said he had been associated with Rotarian Hattersley as a friend, in business and in the Rotary movement, 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 Borough Inner Wheel had been promptly despatched to Mrs. Hattersley.
