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  Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden (July 18, 1864 - May 15, 1937) was a British politician, and the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Snowden was born in Cowling in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
He was created Viscount Snowden, of Ickornshaw in the West Riding of the County of York, and served as Lord Privy Seal from 1931 to 1932 when he resigned in protest at the enactment of a full scheme of Dominion preference and protectionist tariffs.
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 Snowden, Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He belonged to the pacifist minority of the socialist group during World War I. Snowden served in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1918 and from 1922 until 1931.
Snowden remained chancellor in the national government of 1931 and announced (1931) the suspension of the gold standard.
Created Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw in 1931, he served (1931-32) as lord privy seal but resigned when free trade was abandoned.
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 Philip Snowden
Philip Snowden, the son of a weaver, was born in the village of Cowling, in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 18th July, 1864.
Snowden replied that this was not possible as the Labour government had to rely on the support of the Liberal Party to survive.
Philip Snowden is small of stature and frail of frame, with a limp that compels him to lean heavily on a stick as he walks, he regards the world unblinkingly out of a pair of piercing eyes deep-sunken beneath an overhanging brow, across which wisps of lank hair are drawn.
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 Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Snowden was born in in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
He became a prominent speaker for the party and wrote a popular pamphlet with Keir Hardie entitled The Christ that is to Be in 1903.
He was created Viscount Snowden, of Ickornshaw in the West Riding of the County of York, and served as Lord Privy Seal from 1931 to 1932 when he resigned in protest at the enactment of a full scheme of and protectionist tariffs.
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 RAMSAY MACDONALD FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Snowden was a rigid exponent of orthodox finance and would not permit any deficit spending to stimulate the economy, despite the pleadings of Mosley, Lloyd George and the economist John_Maynard_Keynes.
MacDonald, Snowden and Thomas supported such measures, as necessary to maintain a balanced budget and to prevent a run on the pound, but the rest of the Cabinet, almost the whole of the Labour Party, and the trade unions, bitterly opposed them.
MacDonald, Snowden and Thomas were expelled from the Labour Party and formed a new National_Labour_Party, but this had little support in the country or the unions.
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 Prophets, Priests and Kings - Philip Snowden
Philip Snowden's name was on every lip, his sayings ran like rumour through the weaving sheds and the street.
Snowden goes about the country, it is Liberalism which is the target of his bitterest attacks.
Philip Snowden stands aloof from all this tendency —lonely, unyielding, consumed with one passionate purpose.
www.oldandsold.com /articles28/prophets-priests-kings-32.shtml   (1498 words)

  
 Philip
Philip is the English form of the Greek name Philippos, meaning “Lover of Horses” from “phil” (love) and “hippos” (horse).
Philip, the name of one of the lesser apostles, was common in England during the Middle Ages, but it became far less popular after Queen Mary I made an highly unpopular marriage with her cousin, King Philip II of Spain.
Philip II King of Spain and King Philip I of Portugal.
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 AllRefer.com - Snowden, Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Snowden, Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount, British And Irish History, Biographies
Snowden, Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount[snO´dun] Pronunciation Key, 1864–1937, British statesman.
Born to poverty, he was a civil service clerk until crippled by a spinal ailment.
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 Ethel Snowden
At the ILP she met Mary Gawthorpe and Isabella Ford, and the three women formed a branch of the Nation Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in Leeds.
Philip, who had not previously supported votes for women, was persuaded by his wife's arguments, and over the next few years played an active role in the women's suffrage campaign.
She was elected to the National Executive and was invited to stand for one the Leicester constituencies in the 1922 General Election, but she decided to devote her energies to help Philip Snowden win his seat at Colne Valley.
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 BBC News | BUDGET BRIEFING | Budget blunders
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and Chancellor Philip Snowden resigned from the Labour Party and won re-election in a "national" government, which was made up mainly of Conservatives.
Philip Snowden then introduced an "orthodox" budget that cut unemployment benefit and public sector pay at the height of the Depression.
The results were riots in the streets by the unemployed, and a mutiny among sailors in the Royal Navy at Invergordon in Scotland, which virtually crippled the Fleet.
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 C.R. Fay / The Man (Henry George) Who Wanted to Raise Hell
Another Chancellor of the Exchequer, the socialist Philip Snowden, himself more radical than the radicals, renewed the attack in the Budget of 1931, only to fail in effect as his predecessor had done.
For his tax of a penny in the pound on the capital value of land required for its operation the valuation of the land, and before this was completed the economic crisis had brought a National Government into power, and the National Government dropped it.
THE YOUNG Philip Snowden, when a Revenue Collector in Aberdeen, was struck by the furore which Henry George and his book created in Scotland in the early 1880s.
www.cooperativeindividualism.org /fay-c-r_on-henry-george.html   (1258 words)

  
 Snowden Mining Industry Consultants Geology and Exploration People
Philip is a Principal and Founding Director of Snowden Mining Industry Consultants Pty Ltd and has been consulting internationally in the fields of exploration and mining geology since January 1988.
Shaun joined Snowden in February 2000, and has been involved in resource estimation, geographic information systems, exploration reviews and valuations for gold, platinum, mineral sands and diamond deposits, including feasibility study estimation and reviews.
Since joining Snowden in 1995, he has worked on projects worldwide for a variety of commodities including gold, copper, iron ore, bauxite, and base metals.
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 The Land Question / R-S   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Snowden served in the Liberal government of Lloyd George as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Concerned over the desperate conditions of the 1930s, Snowden campaigned for reform of the tax struture.
There never was a time when the need was greater than it is today for the application of the philosophy and principles of Henry George to the economic and political conditions which are scourging the whole world.
www.cooperativeindividualism.org /georgism_06.html   (3285 words)

  
 Connecting Capron Cousins - Person Page 103   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Florence Snowden Capron was born on 18 November 1873 in Winnetka, IL.
De Wilton Snowden was born on 19 August 1818 in Laurel, MD. He married Emma Cynthia Capron, daughter of John Milton Capron and Emma Cynthia Northrup, on 8 March 1839 in Laurel, MD.
De Wilton Snowden died on 24 November 1897 at age 79 in Laurel, MD. He was buried in St Philip's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Laurel, MD; Unknown GEDCOM info.
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 Thomas Family Genealogy
Richard Snowden, son of Capt. Richard Snowden III and Mary Linthicum, 10mo 19 1717; 2nd wife; d.
Mary Snowden, daughter of Richard Snowden and Eliza Jane Coale, 11 Aug 1730; d.
Mary Snowden was born circa 1712 at Maryland.
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 Snowden Mining Industry Consultants Corporate Services People
He also sits on the Boards of Snowden Mining Industry Consultants Pty Ltd, the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Australian Centre for Geomechanics.
Philip is a Geologist with 17 years experience and has worked for several exploration and mining companies in Eastern Australia, the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia and Indonesia.
Philip joined Snowden in 1996 and became General Manager of our Jakarta office before relocating to Perth in 2000.
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 House of Commons Hansard Debates for 15 Dec 1989
Philip Snowden, the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer.
I hope that the way in which I wish to rationalise the experience of the last 50 or 60 years will at last convince them that their true path lies in crossing the Floor of the House and joining us.
Friend leaves the subject of Philip Snowden, does he recollect that he betrayed Socialism by joining the national Government in 1931, and that he died a convinced capitalist?
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm198990/cmhansrd/1989-12-15/Debate-2.html   (5158 words)

  
 Trades Union Congress - The history of the TUC 1868-1968 part 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
These were arguments of a kind to which by July, 1931, when the number of unemployed had risen to 2,750,000 Philip Snowden, the Labour Chancellor, was inclined to lend an ear.
However, MacDonald and Snowden were eventually persuaded by Arthur Henderson to call, on August 20th, a meeting of the TUC General Council, the Cabinet Economy Committee and various other members of the Labour Party Executive, to review the financial crisis.
When Citrine and Bevin led a five man TUC delegation to Downing Street that same evening, Snowden noted that the General Council appeared to be opposed to all the Government's recommended economies, without the implementation of which, he claimed, the number of unemployed might well rise to ten million.
www.tuc.org.uk /the_tuc/tuc-3225-f7.cfm   (680 words)

  
 Ramsay MacDonald - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Charles Philips Trevelyan - President of the Board of Education
Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan - President of the Board of Education
Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister - President of the Board of Trade
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 Connecting Capron Cousins - Person Page 171   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
De Wilton Snowden and Emma Cynthia Capron, on 30 July 1873 in St. Philip's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Laurel, MD; By Rev. Dr.
She married Dewilton Snowden, son of Dewilton Bowie Snowden and Almira E. Heath, on 1 April 1909 in Trinidad Farm, VA; Mayo's parents home.
De Wilton Snowden and Emma Cynthia Capron, on 13 February 1892; by Rev. T.A. Johnstone.
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 Tours of Scotland, my native homeland.
MacDonald, and his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Snowden, accepted the report but when the matter was discussed by the Cabinet, the majority voted against the measures suggested by Sir George May.
When he saw George V that night, he was persuaded to head a new coalition government that would include Conservative and Liberal leaders as well as Labour ministers.
Most of the Labour Cabinet totally rejected the idea and only three, Philip Snowden, Jimmy Thomas and John Sankey agreed to join the new government.
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 Articles - Ramsay MacDonald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
MacDonald took the post of Foreign Secretary as well as Prime Minister, and made it clear that his main priority was to undo the damage which he believed had been caused by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, by settling the reparations issue and coming to terms with Germany.
He left domestic matters to his ministers, including J.R. Clynes as Lord Privy Seal, Philip Snowden as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Henderson as Home Secretary.
Since the government did not have a majority in either House of the Parliament, there was in any case no possibility of passing any radical legislation.
www.worldhammock.com /articles/Ramsay_MacDonald   (2577 words)

  
 Descendants of Welshman? Robert Snowden I
1 Richard SNOWDEN I b: in Wales d: 1711 in All Hallow's Parish (Anne Arundel) MD.
6 Thomas Snowden HOPKINS b: Jun 18, 1803.............
6 Samuel Philip SNOWDEN b: Jan 13, 1794 in MD................
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 Philip Snowden, Viscount Snowden (1864-1937), Statesman
Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer (1924 and 1929); remained in office in the National Government (1931) at a time of world economic depression; a pacifist and champion of conscientious objectors during the First World War.
National Cabinet Group (Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton; Philip Snowden, Viscount Snowden; (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain; Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin; James Henry Thomas; (James) Ramsay MacDonald; Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Readin...)
National Cabinet Group (Philip Snowden, Viscount Snowden; Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton; Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin; James Henry Thomas; Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading; (James) Ramsay MacDonald; (Arthur) Neville Chamberlai...)
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 Genealogy Index for surnames beginning with S   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Snowden, Mary Elizabeth (3 MAR 1872-18 JUL 1944)
Snowden, Otho Bryan (5 JUL 1907-11 MAR 1962)
Snowden, Thomas Lee (5 JUL 1874-6 JAN 1956)
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 FT.com - Special Reports / UK Election 2001
Colne Valley is a historic constituency name and has been the scene of some famous electoral battles, such that its former MP David Clark (before he moved to South Shields) was able to write a book on its history.
It was here that Victor Grayson won on a socialist label in a by-election in 1907, and also this seat that provided the base for Labour's first chancellor, Philip Snowden.
Whether this will have much bearing on a general election remains to be seen, but both Conservative Philip Davies and Liberal Democrat Gordon Beever will believe they are in with a chance of victory, as befits this fascinating seat.
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 LOOKING UP THE LAW
"If mankind had continued to be the slave of precedent we should still be living in caves and subsisting on shellfish and wild berries." -- Philip Snowden.
Not only is the law complicated, it is also arranged on paper in a complicated way.
You need to be knowledgeable in the basics of environmental law in order to cause changes for the better, but when it comes time for the actual making of change through litigation, let a lawyer handle that for you.
www.wildlaw.org /Eco-Laws/lookup.htm   (3388 words)

  
 HTML Translation of SGML/EAD Document by Tim Green
Attendees include Philip Snowden, J R MacDonald, T D Benson, Bruce Glasier, Margaret Bondfield, W C Anderson, F W Jowett, R C Wallhead and Francis Johnson.
Attendees include Philip Snowden, J R MacDonald, T D Benson, Margaret Bondfield, Bruce Glasier, F W Jowett, R C Wallhead, W C Anderson, Walter H Ayles and Francis Johnson.
Attendees include Philip Snowden, F W Jowett, Walter H Ayles, R C Wallhead, J R MacDonald, E Shinwell, Clifford Allen and Francis Johnson.
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