George Hume (politician)

Sir George Hopwood Hume
Member of Parliament
for Greenwich
In office
27 October 1931 – 15 June 1945
Preceded byEdward Timothy Palmer
Succeeded byJoseph Reeves
In office
29 October 1924 – 10 May 1929
Preceded byEdward Timothy Palmer
Succeeded byEdward Timothy Palmer
In office
15 November 1922 – 16 November 1923
Preceded byIon Hamilton Benn
Succeeded byEdward Timothy Palmer
Personal details
Born(1866-05-24)24 May 1866
Poltava
Died13 September 1946(1946-09-13) (aged 80)
Blackheath, London
Political partyConservative

Sir George Hopwood Hume (24 May 1866 – 13 September 1946) was a British Conservative politician and leader of the London County Council.[1][2]

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.[1][2] 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.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b c Pottle, Mark (2006). "Hume, Sir George Hopwood (1866–1946), politician". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 6 September 2009.
  2. ^ a b c "Sir George Hume. Long Record of Public Service". The Times. 14 September 1946. p. 7.