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Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, PC (/ ˈ s n oʊ d ən /; 18 July 1864 – 15 May 1937) was a British politician. A strong speaker, he became popular in trade union circles for his denunciation of capitalism as unethical and his promise of a socialist utopia.
Philip Snowden, Viscount Snowden was a socialist politician and propagandist and chancellor of the Exchequer in the first two Labour Party governments of Great Britain (1924; 1929–31). The son of a weaver, Snowden worked for the government as a clerk until he became crippled by a spinal disease.
Philip Snowden Snowden, 1st Viscount (snō´dən), 1864–1937, British statesman. Born to poverty, he was a civil service clerk until crippled by a spinal ailment. Resigning in 1893, he began to work for the Independent Labour party (ILP).
His first ministerial post was the chancellorship of the Exchequer in the first Labour government (1924). His cautious policy incurred criticism from Labour's left wing, but he shared Ramsay MacDonald's determination to prove Labour ‘fit to govern’ by financial orthodoxy.
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, PC ( / ˈsnoʊdən /; 18 July 1864 – 15 May 1937) was a British politician. A strong speaker, he became popular in trade union circles for his denunciation of capitalism as unethical and his promise of a socialist utopia.
Snowden, Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount snōˈdən [key], 1864–1937, British statesman. Born to poverty, he was a civil service clerk until crippled by a spinal ailment. Resigning in 1893, he began to work for the Independent Labour party (ILP).
Snowden, Philip (1864–1937). Labour politician. Snowden came from humble Yorkshire weaving stock, but managed to obtain a junior post in the civil service. Source for information on Snowden, Philip: The Oxford Companion to British History dictionary.
