BRITISH CABINET

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 145, 16 March 1931, Page 9

BRITISH CABINET

Appointments Approved British Wireless Rugby, March 13. His Majesty the King has approved the following appointments:— Lord Pousonby, to be Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in succession to Major Attle, who was recently appointed Postmaster-General. Mr. Henry Snell, to be Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State of the India Office, vice the late Earl Russell. Mr. John Allen Parkinson, to be Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, vice Lord Ponsonby. The King has conferred the dignity of a Barony of the United Kingdom upon Mr. Henry Snell. The new baron, who is a bachelor, has had an interesting career. He was born in humble circumstances, his parents being agricultural labourers. After attending a village school he began life as a farm worker. He was afterward groom, ferryman, and postman, but continued his education at Nottingham University College, and later at the London School of Economics and at Heidelberg University. He has always taken a deep interest in social questions, and became well known as a lecturer on labour and religious matters. Since 1922 he has been member of Parliament for East Woolwich.