to the British Council, eventually becoming vice-chairman. In 1935, when Arthur Ponsonby chose to resign with George Lansbury, Snell became Labour's leader in the Lords, serving under Clement Attlee. He published an autobiography, Men, Movements and Myself, in 1936, and was made a Privy Counsellor in 1937. As leader in the Lords, Snell took a strong line against the growing threat of fascism, and attacked the Government's appeasement of Nazi Germany and its refusal to intervene to help the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War. He also continued to champion Zionism. During a debate in the Lords in 1938 he spoke in support of the policy of population transfer of Arabs in Palestine for the purposes of developing the land and creating cohesive settlements, pointing out that similar transfers had occurred in Libya and other Arab countries without any protest. Aged seventy-five and with his health failing, he stood down as leader of the Labour peers in 1940. However, he recovered and was appointed by Winston Churchill as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (Deputy Leader of the House of Lords) a year later (having been considered as Leader, but passed over in favour of a Conservative). He chaired several committees and inquiries during the Second World War, and was awarded the Companion of Honour in 1943. Whilst still in the role of Deputy Leader, Snell fell ill at the end of March 1944, and died less than a month later, his peerage becoming extinct at that time. See also Shaw Commission References External links 1865 births 1944 deaths Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Commanders of the Order of the British Empire English agnostics Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms Independent Labour Party MPs Independent Labour Party National Administrative Committee members Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of London County Council Members of the Fabian Society Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Ministers in the Churchill wartime government, 1940–1945 People associated with the London School of Economics People from Newark and Sherwood (district) Social Democratic Federation members UK MPs 1922–1923 UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs 1929–1931 UK MPs who were granted peerages Barons created by George V