 He became a Justice of the Peace (JP) for London in 1929, and in 1934 he was elected to Hackney Borough Council.He was subsequently made an alderman and Mayor of Hackney in 1936/37.He remained a member of the borough council for more than thirty years, and was also a member of the North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, chairman of the Hackney and Queen Elizabeth hospital group, and a freeman of the Borough of Hackney.