Career
He was unseated at the 1929 general election by the Labour candidate Leonard Matters, an Australian journalist, but ousted Matters in 1931 with a majority of 28.6% of the votes. He was re-elected in 1935, and held the seat until his death in 1939, aged 68. He was knighted in the King"s Birthday Honours, 1936, for "political and public services".
