Constituency : Rotherhithe 1906-18
Hubert took Rotherhithe from the Tories.
Hubert was the son of a civil servant in India and was born there. He was educated at Eton and Oxford. He went into publishing. He was Secretary to the London Liberal Federation.
Hubert became Assistant Private Secrtetary to Campbell-Bannerman.
In 1913 Hubert divorced his wife on the grounds of adultery with his friend and colleague Elliott Crawshay-Williams, MP for Leicester. Churchill and Lloyd George tried to persuade him not to bring the case to protect Crawshay-Williams's career.
During the First World War Hubert served as a captain in France and Salonika.
Hubert was defeated in 1918 by a couponed Conservative. He wrote to The Times in 1922 condemning tjhe coalition as being based around a personality rather than established parties and ideas.
In the 1922 election, he was pushed into third place in Rotherhithe In 1923 he made a late decision to contest the solidly Conservative seat of Paddington South but was easily seen off.
In 1936 Hubert published a pamphlet calling for the introduction of proportional representation in London's municipal elections.
He died of pneumonia in Tenerife in 1939 aged 61.
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