Philip Snowden (1864-1937: ODNB), civil servant, journalist, lecturer, author, and socialist campaigner; chairman, Independent Labour Party, 1903-6, 1917-20; MP (Lab) Blackburn, 1906-18, Colne Valley, 1922-31, chancellor of the exchequer, 1924, 1929-31; joined the National government with J.R. MacDonald, 1931; viscount, 1931; lord privy seal, 1931-2, resigning in defence of free trade. See also Volulme 53.

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• 27 Apr 1928