Career
He contested the London County Council election, 1922 as a Progressive candidate for Lewisham West but was unsuccessful. He was National Liberal Party Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Leicester East from 1922 to 1923 and Conservative Member of Parliament for Cardiff South from 1924 to 1929, and from 1931 to 1945. At the 1945 general election he was defeated by the future Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan.
