Philip Snowden Biography

Snowden marries Ethel Annakin, a campaigner for womens suffrage

Birth of Philip Snowden

Appointed Party Leader of the Independent Labour Party

Elected Member of Parliament, 1st time

Snowden keeps to his pacifist principles offering his support to conscientious objectors & loses his seat in the general election

Snowden keeps to his pacifist principles offering his support to conscientious objectors & loses his seat in the general election

Elected Member of Parliament for Colne Valley

Cuts direct & indirect taxation

Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1st term

Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, 2nd term

Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, 3rd term

Snowden decides not to stand for Parliament at the general election

Appointed Lord Privy Seal

Snowden & MacDonald are expelled from the Labour Party

Announces cuts in unemployment relief & pay for all Government employees

Snowden supports emergency legislation ending the Bank of England's obligation to provide gold for sterling.

Snowden presents the measure suspending the statutory gold standard during the sterling crisis.

Emergency legislation suspends sterling's convertibility into gold during the financial crisis.

In a BBC radio broadcast calls Labours policies "Bolshevism run mad"

Resigns in protest at the enactment of a full scheme of Imperial Preference and protectionist tariffs

Resigns in protest at the enactment of a full scheme of Imperial Preference and protectionist tariffs

Supports a radical economic programme proposed by Lloyd George, despite it being a complete repudiation of Snowdens own record

Death of Philip Snowden