Kenyan lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Legislative Council and later the National Assembly between 1952 and 1970. He was the inaugural Speaker of the National Assembly, from 1967 to 1970.

He called his time spent as Speaker of the Kenya Parliament " his 10 happiest years". Retired in 1970 and became a legal consultant with Hamilton, Harrison and Mathews. He was awarded EBS [Kenya Honour]. Source: Mrs C.L. Slade             

Pre-war volunteer to the Kenya Regiment (KR 656)

Wikipedia Slade was born in Kensington, London to George Slade, a solicitor, and his wife Edith Beale. He was a King's Scholar at Eton College and later read jurisprudence at Magdalen College, Oxford. He completed his articles with Gibson and Weldon and qualified as a solicitor in 1930. He migrated to Kenya in October 1930 and practised as a lawyer with Hamilton Harrison and Mathews in Nairobi. When the Second World War broke out in 1939, he was made Deputy Judge Advocate of the East African Forces, remaining in the position until 1941. In 1945, whilst still in Kenya, he came of the roll of solicitors in England and Wales in order to gain a call to the bar at Lincoln's Inn.
In 1952, he was elected to the Legislative Council from the Aberdares constituency. He served as speaker of the Legislative Council from 1960 until Kenyan independence in 1963. He then served as speaker of the newly established House of Representatives between 1963 and 1967, and that latter year he was unanimously elected as the inaugural Speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya. He retired from public life in 1970 and died in Nairobi in 1983.
Eric Griffith-Jones interviewed by Margery Perham 29 Sep 1971, Bodleian Library Mss Afr.s.2213 A chameleon character who disapproved of the surrender offer. Wife was very anti African but Slade mellowed. He was a great Speaker of Legislative Council. Africans trusted him. His wife also changed and they stayed in Kenya.

Terence Gavaghan, Of Lions and Dungbeetles, 1999  An Eton King's Scholar risen to be Deputy Judge Advocate General, after which he turned ardent right- wing settler and anti-terrorist hardliner. He was outwardly an aesthetic and monkish man who blended severity of moral conviction with decent compassion.