Norman Hulbert - Parliamentary Nomination

Parliamentary Nomination

Hulbert's position on the LCC helped him in March 1935, when he was adopted as one of the Conservative Party candidates for the two-member Stockport constituency. He and his fellow candidate Sir Arnold Gridley safely held the seat at the 1935 general election. Shortly after his election, on 11 December 1935 Hulbert married Helen Margaret Tyler at St Clement Danes Church.

In 1936, Hulbert promoted the work of the London Police Court Mission, which attempted to place offenders in useful work as an alternative to prison. Hulbert was a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship and served on that organisation's Council in 1936-7; he was a guest in Germany at the Nuremberg Rally on 12 September 1938. The next month, Hulbert divorced his first wife and within a week married Dr (Eileen) Pearl Gretton-Watson, who was like him active in politics; she also later served on the London County Council.

Pearl and Norman had two daughters Virginia (1941) and Alexandra(1946)