Edward Elton Young Hales

Edward Elton Young Hales was an English Catholic historian. Born in Nottingham, England, he was a son of James Elton Hales and Ethel Burbidge. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, "Teddy" Hales worked as an inspector in the British Ministry of Education in London, and was influential in promoting the study of world history in secondary schools in the UK. Hales compared his conversion to the Catholic Church with St.