Herbert George Romeril (1881 – 2 October 1963) was an English Labour Party politician. Romeril worked at the

Railway Clearing House The Railway Clearing House (RCH) was an organisation set up to manage the allocation of revenue collected by pre-grouping railway companies for the conveyance of passengers and goods over the lines (or using the rolling stock) of other compani ...

, and joined the Railway Clerks' Association. He also joined the

Independent Labour Party The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British political party of the left, established in 1893 at a conference in Bradford, after local and national dissatisfaction with the Liberals' apparent reluctance to endorse working-class candidates ...

(ILP), and became the chair of its Metropolitan Branch. The ILP was affiliated to the Labour Party, and at the 1918 and

1922 UK general election The 1922 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 15 November 1922. It was won by the Conservative Party, led by Bonar Law, which gained an overall majority over the Labour Party, led by J. R. Clynes, and a divided Liberal Party ...

s, Romeril stood unsuccessfully for it in St Pancras South East. He finally won the seat in 1923, lost it in 1924, won it again in 1929, and then lost again in 1931. From 1930 to 1931, he chaired the Estimates Committee in Parliament. At the

1935 UK general election The 1935 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 14 November 1935 and resulted in a large, albeit reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Stanley Baldwin of the Conservative Party. The greatest number of members, a ...

, Romeril stood unsuccessfully in Battersea South. He did not stand for Parliament again, but did serve as a magistrate for Middlesex.

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* * 1881 births 1963 deaths Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Presidents of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association Transport Salaried Staffs' Association-sponsored MPs UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1929–1931 {{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub