Member of Parliament for Greenwich
What was the position of George Hume (politician) in Dec 1927?
George Hume ( politician ) Sir George Hopwood Hume ( 24 May 1866 – 13 September 1946 ) was a British Conservative politician and leader of the London County Council . He was born in the Ukrainian city of Poltava , then in the Russian Empire . His father was George Hume , a Scottish mechanical engineer , and British vice consul at Kiev and Kharkov . He was educated in Russia , Switzerland and at the Finsbury Technical College , London . He was apprenticed as an electrical engineer at Siemens Brothers , later studying law and was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1900 . In 1901 he married Jeanne Alice Ladrierre of Lausanne , who died in 1922 . Political career . Greenwich Borough Council . Hume entered politics in November 1900 when he was elected to the newly constituted Greenwich Borough Council as a member of the Conservative-backed Moderate grouping . He topped the poll in the Charlton ward , and became leader as the Moderates took control of the new council . London County Council . In March 1910 Hume was elected to the London County Council to represent Greenwich . He was a member of the majority Municipal Reform Party , the title used by the Conservatives , on the county council . He was re-elected in 1913 , and was appointed chairman of the Highways Committee . In this capacity in May 1914 he presided over a ceremony to commission new turbines at the Greenwich Power Station of the London County Council Tramways . Leader of the council . In 1918 Hume succeeded Ronald Collet Norman as leader of the Municipal Reformers and thus the council . Although the party had a majority of seats , they had formed a wartime coalition with the opposition Progressives . Hume , who was re-elected in 1919 , continued this agreement until 1922 . Hume was elevated to the rank of county alderman in 1922 which he was to hold until his death . In 1924 he was knighted . In 1925 he resigned as council leader , and in 1926 was elected to the ceremonial post of Chairman of the L.C.C . Member of Parliament for Greenwich . In 1922 Hume was nominated as Conservative candidate for the parliamentary constituency of Greenwich . He was elected by a large majority over his Labour Party opponent , Edward Palmer . A further election was held in 1923 , and Palmer unseated Hume . Hume unseated Palmer at the 1924 election , only for the situation to be reversed in 1929 . In 1931 Hume regained the seat , with Palmers vote reduced by the presence of a Communist candidate , and was re-elected four years later . Apart from his municipal and parliamentary offices , Hume was a member of the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee , the Thames Conservancy Board and the London and Home Counties Joint Electricity Authority . In 1932 he married Dorothy Hunt Blundell . In 1938 he indicated his intention to stand down at the next election . In the event , elections were postponed due to the Second World War , and he remained in the Commons until 1945 . Sir George Hume died at his home at Blackheath , London in September 1946 , aged 80 .