Constituency : Sheffield Brightside 1906-22, Penryn and Falmouth 1929-31
John took Sheffield Brightside from the Tories.
John was an architect and surveyor by profession.
John was knighted in 1912.
In 1917 John chaired a Committee on housing which produced the Tudor Walters Report . This called for better housing with inside sanitation, slum clearance and semi-detached houses built to a high construction standard. It influenced the Housing and Town Planning Act of 1919. John was a director in a garden suburb company.
Ironically John then became Paymaster-General in the Lloyd George government after discovering that Christopher Addison's houses were costing the government too much in building materials
In 1922, John was decisively defeated in a two-cornered contest by the former Liberal MP Arthur Ponsonby standing for Labour.
In 1923 John failed to get back in at Pudsey, coming second to the Conservative candidate.
In 1929 John won Penryn and Falmouth from the Unionists. He opposed Lloyd George's proposal for a time-limited pact with Labour but supported keeping them in office while they pursued acceptable policies.
John briefly joined the National Government in his old role as Paymaster-General but stood down when an election was called.
He died in 1933 aged 65.
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