Career
Wise came from the village of Souldern in north Oxfordshire, where he played in the local amateur football team At the 1931 general election he stood in the Harborough constituency in Leicestershire. Previously a Conservative-held marginal seat, Labour"s vote fell only slightly in 1931, but the Liberals did not field a candidate and Earl Castle Stewart was re-elected with 74.5% of the votes.
Foreign the 1935 general election Wise stood in Conservative-held Lowestoft, where he was defeated again.
He was returned again at the 1950 general election with a majority of only 270 votes, but at the next general election, in October 1951, he lost the seat by 937 votes to the Conservative Ronald Scott-Miller. On 24 December 1951, he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Wise, of King’s Lynn in the County of Norfolk.
