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| rdfs:comment | - Brigadier Sir Geoffrey Paul Hardy-Roberts (1907-9 April 1997) was an army officer and local politician. Following education at Eton and Sandhurst he received a commission as an officer in the British Army in 1926. He retired from the army in 1937 with the rank of captain. On 28 April 1938 he was elected unopposed to the London County Council to fill a casual vacancy. He sat as a Municipal Reform Party councillor representing Lewisham West and held the seat until elections were resumed after the Second World War in 1946.
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| abstract | - Brigadier Sir Geoffrey Paul Hardy-Roberts (1907-9 April 1997) was an army officer and local politician. Following education at Eton and Sandhurst he received a commission as an officer in the British Army in 1926. He retired from the army in 1937 with the rank of captain. On 28 April 1938 he was elected unopposed to the London County Council to fill a casual vacancy. He sat as a Municipal Reform Party councillor representing Lewisham West and held the seat until elections were resumed after the Second World War in 1946. With the outbreak of war in 1939 his commission was reactivated and he served in the Western Desert, Sicily and Italy. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1941 when he was also awarded the OBE, to the wartime rank of colonel in 1943 and later in the same year to temporary brigadier. He was chief of staff to the general officer commanding the British Second Army from 1943–45, during the invasion of North West Europe. He was made a Commander of the Bath in 1945. At the 1945 general election he was Conservative Party candidate for Wimbledon. However, the normally safe Conservative seat was won by the Labour Party as they swept to power in an electoral landslide. He was subsequently Superintendent of Middlesex Hospital from 1946-1967 and Master of the Queen's Household from 1967-1973. In 1972 he was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.
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