Business Difficulty
One of Hulbert's business posts was taken from him in September 1956. He had for a long time been a director of the R.F.D. Company, aeronautical engineers and fabric screen printers, and had been chairman since the 1940s. However, in the company's annual meeting in June 1956, he unsuccessfully proposed to appoint three additional directors. When the proposal was ruled out of order, Hulbert was asked to resign and agreed to do so in September. However, in the summer of 1956, Hulbert sent a letter to the company's shareholders asking for support to requisition an extraordinary general meeting in order to elect the new directors, which the board took as an indication that no resignation would be forthcoming and they therefore dismissed him as a director.
After the 1959 general election, Hulbert was elected Chairman of the House of Commons Motor Club. He led a Parliamentary delegation to Norway in March 1960. He was Chairman of the Standing Committee to which Margaret Thatcher's Private Members Bill, the Public Bodies (Admission of the Press) Bill, was committed. In June 1960, Lady Hulbert was granted a divorce from him on account of his adultery, and he married Mrs Betty Bullock in March 1962.
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