Geoffrey Hutchinson, Baron Ilford

Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson, Baron Ilford QC, MC, TD (14 October 1893 – 21 August 1974) He was educated at Cheltenham College and went then to Clare College, Cambridge, graduating with a Master of Arts in 1919. He was promoted to major in 1937 and was awarded the Territorial Decoration in the next year. and was appointed honorary colonel of the 5th battalion of his former regiment in 1948.

Political career In 1931 Hutchinson joined Hampstead Borough Council, on which he sat for six years. Hutchinson continued to represent Hampstead in the County Council until 1952.

After unsuccessfully running for Gower in 1935, Hutchinson entered the House of Commons in 1937, retaining Ilford for the Conservatives at a by-election. He represented that constituency until it was abolished in 1945, In 1947 he became director of the Colne Valley Water and three years later was president of the British Waterworks Association. He resigned from Parliament in 1954, when he became chairman of the National Assistance Board, a position he held until 1964. He received a knighthood in 1952 and he became a life peer with the title Baron Ilford, of Bury, in the County Palatine of Lancaster on 14 May 1962.

Family Hutchinson married Janet Bidlake, youngest daughter of Henry Frederick Keep in 1919.