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.
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 Palmer's 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. ==Death==