Charles Royle, Baron Royle, JP (23 January 1896 – 30 September 1975) was a British businessman and Labour politician.
He was the son of Charles Royle, who had been also a Member of Parliament, and his wife Maria, daughter of Oliver Wolfe. Royle was educated at Stockport Grammar School and joined the Royal Engineers in the First World War.[1] He worked then in the retail meat trade.[2]
He joined the Liberal Party and served as Secretary of Stockport Young Liberals. By 1933 he had joined the Labour Party.[3] In 1935, Royle contested Lancaster unsuccessfully.[1] At the recreation of the Ministry of Food in 1939, he became a meat agent[2] and after the end of the Second World War, he entered the British House of Commons, sitting for Salford West.[4] He was elected president of the Manchester and Saiford Meat Association in 1942, a post he held until the following year.[2] During his time in the House, Royle was appointed a Lord of the Treasury in 1950 and one year later, became an opposition whip until 1954.[5] Following his retirement in 1964, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Royle, of Pendleton, in the City of Salford on 25 August. At the House of Lords, he was nominated a deputy speaker.
Royle was a Justice of the Peace for Brighton and sat in the Stockport Borough Council.[2] He served as a deputy chairman of the Magistrates' Association and was a co-chairman of the British-Caribbean Association.[1] Royle was president of the Sussex branch of the National Association of Probation Officers and a vice-president of Association of Metropolitan Corporations.[2] An honorary fellow of the Institute of Architects and Surveyors, he was also chairman of the Alliance Building Society.[1]
In 1919, he married Florence Smith, daughter of Henry Smith, and had by her an only daughter.[6]