Julian Snow, Baron Burntwood

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Julian Ward Snow, Baron Burntwood ( February 24, 1910 - January 24, 1982 ) was a British Labor Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for 25 years and who became a Life Peer Member of the 1970s under the Life Peerages Act 1958 House of Lords was.

Life

After attending school, Snow worked for Dunlop Rubber Co Ltd in India and East Africa between 1930 and 1937 . He then joined the British Army and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II between 1939 and 1945 , where he was last promoted to captain .

After the end of the war, Snow was elected as a candidate for the Labor Party in the general election on July 5, 1945 in the constituency of Portsmouth Central for the first time as a member of the House of Commons, where he succeeded against the previous constituency holder of the Conservative Party , Ralph Beaumont , clearly. While Beaumont received 11,345 votes and 42.6 percent, he himself got 14,745 votes and 55.3 percent of the vote.

On August 20, 1948, he married Flavia Ria Joan Blois, the youngest daughter of Ralph Barrett MacNaghten Blois, 9th Baronet Blois, of Grundisburgh and Cockfield Hall, in the County of Suffolk, who was among other things Deputy Lieutenant and High Sheriff of Suffolk . On November 17, 1947 he was appointed one of the Lord Commissioners of HM Treasury and confirmed on February 2, 1949 and January 11, 1950 in this capacity.

After the dissolution of the constituency of Portsmouth Central , Snow was elected MP in the subsequent general election of February 23, 1950 in the newly created constituency of Lichfield and Tamworth and represented this constituency until he resigned on April 29, 1970 in the House of Commons. In his first election and subsequent re-elections, with the exception of the general election of October 15, 1964, he was always able to prevail against his competitors with absolute majorities.

After leaving the House of Commons, Snow was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated September 21, 1970 under the Life Peerages Act as a life peer with the title Baron Burntwood , of Burntwood in the County of Staffordshire, and was thus up to on his death as a member of the House of Lords.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 38126, HMSO, London, November 18, 1947, p. 5448 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 38541, HMSO, London, February 18, 1949, p. 869 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 38815, HMSO, London, January 17, 1950, p. 289 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Snow, Julian, Baron Burntwood
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Snow, Julian Ward, Baron Burntwood (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Labor), Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1910
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1982