| LC control no. | nb2010003143 |
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| Personal name heading | Snell, Henry Snell, Baron, 1865-1944 |
| Variant(s) | Snell, H. (Henry), 1865-1944 Snell, Harry, 1865-1944 Snell, Lord, 1865-1944 |
| Birth date | 1865-04-01 |
| Death date | 1944-04-21 |
| Place of birth | Sutton-on-Trent (England) |
| Place of death | Middlesex (England) |
| Affiliation | London School of Economics and Political Science Universität Heidelberg Secular Education League Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords |
| Profession or occupation | Politicians |
| Found in | The spiritual reconstruction of England, 1922: title page (H. Snell) The Ethical Movement: its principles and aims, 1911: t.itle page (Harry Snell) DNB database, 4 Feb. 2010 (Snell, Henry, Baron Snell (1865-1944); Snell became thoroughly involved in the Ethical Society; his socialist activities found expression through the Independent Labour Party) BL database, 4 Feb. 2010 (hdg.: Snell, Harry, Baron Snell) LC database, 4 Feb. 2010 (hdg.: Snell, Henry Snell, baron, 1865-1944) New tyrannies for old, 1939: title page (Lord Snell) Men, movements, and myself, 1938: title page (Lord Snell) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, via WWW, January 21, 2016 (Snell, Henry, Baron Snell (1865-1944), politician and secularist, was born on 1 April 1865 at Sutton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire; Snell obtained a clerical post at the Midland Institution for the Blind, and in 1890 moved to London as assistant to the secretary of the Woolwich Charity Organization Society; in 1895 he became secretary to the director of the London School of Economics and Political Science; subsequently he lectured for the Fabian Society; appointed in 1899 as an organizer and lecturer for the British Union of Ethical Societies, he suffered a nervous collapse; during his convalescence he spent the spring and summer terms of 1902 at the University of Heidelberg; as well as becoming chairman of the British Union of Ethical Societies, he was from 1907 to 1931 secretary of the Secular Education League; he became a London county councillor for East Woolwich in 1919 and again in 1922; his failure to stand three years later was the result of his election to parliament in November 1922 as member for East Woolwich; he retained the seat until he accepted a peerage in 1931; Snell entered the government as parliamentary under-secretary at the India Office in March 1931; following the death of Earl Russell, there was a lack of Labour ministerial talent in the Lords, and the appointment entailed Snell's taking a peerage, as Baron Snell, of Plumstead, Kent; within the House of Lords Snell became an effective member within the small Labour group; he became deputy leader of the House of Lords in 1940; he was appointed CBE in 1930, sworn of the privy council in 1937, and made a CH in 1943; he died at Highgate Hospital, Middlesex, on 21 April 1944; he never married, and the peerage became extinct) |
| Associated language | eng |
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