Municipal Contribution
He was also a member of the Labour Party and in 1934 he was one of the Labour candidates for Wandsworth Borough Council in the Clapham North ward; he lost narrowly. He then fought the Clapham division in the 1937 London County Council election; while unsuccessful then, he was elected there by 57 votes in a byelection in May 1938. He was made a Justice of the Peace for the County of London in 1940.
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