Ellis Hume-Williams

Sir Ellis William Hume-Williams, 1st Baronet KBE, PC, KC (19 August 1863 – 4 February 1947) was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. Hume-Williams was a King's Counsel (KC), and in October 1901 was appointed Recorder of the Borough of Bury St Edmunds.

Early life Born into an Anglo-Irish family with Welsh roots, Hume-Williams' was the son of Joseph William Hume-Williams, a doctor turned barrister who built up a large practice in London 'and was for a time on the staff of the Lancet', and of his wife Agnes Charter, a daughter of James Malet Charter, of Lynchfield Hall, Bishops Lydeard, Somerset. Ellis Hume-Williams attended schools in Brighton, Germany, France and Hitchin, before going up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he won the Cressingham Prize in 1879 and graduated BA and LLB. He was called to the bar in 1881.

At the January 1910 general election, Hume-Williams was elected as Member of Parliament for Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire. He lost his House of Commons seat at the 1929 election to Malcolm MacDonald, son of the Labour Party leader Ramsay MacDonald, and did not stand for Parliament again. He was made a Privy Counsellor in July 1929, shortly after his last electoral defeat.