Sir William Ellis Hume-Williams, KBE

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, PC

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 (19 August 1863 – 4 February 1947) was a Conservative Party

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 politician in the United Kingdom

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At the January 1910 general election, Hume-Williams was elected as Member of Parliament

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 for the Bassetlaw constituency

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 in Nottinghamshire

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. He lost his seat at the 1929 general election

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 to Malcolm Macdonald

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 (son of the Labour Party

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 leader Ramsay Macdonald

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), and did not stand for Parliament

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 again.

He was made appointed as a Privy Counsellor

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in July 1929, shortly after his electoral defeat.