Edmund Henry Hambly

Hambly qualified as a doctor in 1937 when he graduated from St Bartholomew's. He received a Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons in 1938. Ill health prevented him from joining the forces in the second world war. He was a Harley Street surgeon. He was chief assistant in orthopaedic surgery at the Westminster Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital throughout the war. He had a special interest in peripheral nerve and spinal management of wounded servicemen. After the war he was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Prince of Wales Hospital, Tottenham, the Royal Hospital, Richmond and Acton Hospital. He practised until 1969 when he was forced to retire due to ill health.^[5] He was Liveryman of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. He was also a farmer in Cornwall.^[6]

Hambly joined the Labour Party. In 1946 he was elected to the London County Council representing Lewisham East. He was appointed vice-chairman of the town and country planning committee. In this role he took an active part in the planning of postwar London.^[7] In 1949 he was elected to represent Lewisham South and continued to do so until the LCC was abolished in 1965. He sat as a Labour Party councillor until August 1961 when he resigned from the party, and served the remainder of his term as a member of the Liberal Party.^[8][9] He was Liberal candidate for the Falmouth and Camborne division of Cornwall at the 1964 General Election. He did not stand for parliament again.^[10]