Sir George Hopwood Hume (24 May 1866 – 13 September 1946) was a British Conservative politician and leader of the London County Council.

His father was George Hume, a Scottish mechanical engineer, and British vice consul at Kiev and Kharkov.

[1][2] Hume entered politics in November 1900 when he was elected to the newly constituted Greenwich Borough Council as a member of the Conservative-backed Moderate grouping.

In this capacity in May 1914 he presided over a ceremony to commission new turbines at the Greenwich Power Station of the London County Council Tramways.

[11] In 1931, Hume regained the seat, with Palmer's vote reduced by the presence of a Communist candidate, and was re-elected four years later.