RAISED TO PEERAGE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 120, 17 November 1931, Page 9

RAISED TO PEERAGE

MR. SNOWDEN HONOURED

RECOGNITION OF SERVICE

DISSOLUTION LIST

(British Official Wireless.) (Received 17th November, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, 16th November. The King has conferred a Viscountcy upon Mr. Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the previous Administration and Lord Privy Seal in the present Cabinet. Some time before the General Election Mr. Snowden announced that, owing to reasons of health, he did not intend to seek re-election to the House of Commons. Other honours conferred in a short list issued in connection with the recent dissolution are baronies to Sir Robert Hunt Newman, Baronet, member of Parliament for Exeter since 1918, and Sir Martin Conway, member of Parliament for the Combined English Universities since 1918. These honours are conferred in recognition of public and political services. Knighthoods are also conferred on Mr. G. M. Gillett, former Parliamentary Secretary to the Department of Overseas Trade, and Mr. J. C. Watson, Solicitor-General for Scotland.

The removal of Mr. Philip Snowden into the House of Lords was anticipated before the elections. When he left the House of Commons before the election it was after spending over twenty years in Parliament, during which time he had twice been Chancellor of the Exchequer, and had sat on a number of Royal Commissions and been chairman of the Independent Labour Party. He is now 67 years old, and has struggled for many years'against infirmity due to an early mishap. Mr. G. M. Gillett, Labour M.P. for Finsbury from 1923, was Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade from 1929 until the time of the national crisis.