LABOUR PEERS
NEW LEADER APPOINTED (Received October 22. 7.35 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 21 Lord Snell has been appointed leader of the Labour peers in the House of Lords in succession to Lord Ponsonby, who recently resigned. Baron Snell of Plumstead, who is a bachelor, was raised to the peerage in lIM, having been member of the House of Commons for East Woolwich since 1922. He was Parliamentary UnderSecretary of State for the India Office in 1931. His parents were agricultural labourers and he began life as a farm worker, and afterward was successively a groom, a ferryman and a potman. Ho attended the London School of Economics and Heidelburg University, and later became secretary to the first director of the London School of Economics. Ho was a member of the London County Council from 1919 to 1925.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22247, 23 October 1935, Page 13
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