DEATH OF LORD SNELL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 95, 22 April 1944, Page 5

DEATH OF LORD SNELL

FARM WORKER WHO BECAME A PEER

A London cablegram last night announced the death of Lord Snell, Deputy-Leader of the House of Lords since 1940. A member of the Executive Committee of the Royal Empire Society and vice-chairman of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, he was also joint treasurer of the Empire Parliamentary Association, a member of the Executive Committee of the British Council, and president of the National Council of Social Service in 1938. Born of parents who were engaged in agriculture, Henry Snell was educated at a village school and later at Nottingham University College, the London School of Economics and Heidelberg University. He began life as a farm worker and was afterwards groom, ferryman and potman. He Became clerk at the Nottingham Blind Institution, followed by nine years as agent of the Woolwich and Nottingham Charity Organisation Societies. A. constant speaker on labour and religious topics, he was secretary to the first director of the London School of Economics and afterwards Hutchinson Trust lecturer to the Fabian Society, being afterwards appointed lecturer to the British Ethical Movement. A member of the London County Council from 1919 to 1915, he was chairman from 1934 to 1938. He represented East Woolwich for the Labour Party from 1922 to 1931, and was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the India Office in 1931. He was the author of two books, “Daily Life in Parliament,” and “Men, Movements and Myself,” and many pamnhlets. He was awarded the C.B.E. in 1930, and became a Privy 'Councillor in 1937. He was created Baron Snell of Plumstead in 1931. He was not married.