Philip Snowden,1st Viscount Snowden,PC 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. He was the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer,a position he held in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931. He broke with Labour policy in 1931,and was expelled from the party and excoriated as a turncoat,as the party was overwhelmingly crushed that year by the National Government coalition that Snowden supported. He was succeeded as Chancellor by Neville Chamberlain.
David Kirkwood,1st Baron Kirkwood,PC was a Scottish politician,trade unionist and socialist activist from the East End of Glasgow,who was as a leading figure of the Red Clydeside era.
Sir Donald Maclean was a British Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Leader of the Opposition between 1918 and 1920 and served in Ramsay MacDonald's National Government as President of the Board of Education from 1931 until his death in June that following year.
There have been various groups in Canada that have nominated candidates under the label Labour Party or Independent Labour Party or other variations from the 1870s until the 1960s. These were usually local or provincial groups using the Labour Party or Independent Labour Party name,backed by local labour councils or individual trade unions. There was an attempt to create a national Canadian Labour Party in the late 1910s and in the 1920s,but these were only partly successful.
William Adamson was a Scottish trade unionist and Labour politician. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1917 to 1921 and served as Secretary of State for Scotland in 1924 and during 1929–1931 in the first two Labour ministries headed by Ramsay MacDonald.
Robert Stevenson Horne,1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan,was a Scottish businessman,advocate and Unionist politician. He served under David Lloyd George as Minister of Labour between 1919 and 1920,as President of the Board of Trade between 1920 and 1921 and as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1921 and 1922. In 1937 he was ennobled as Viscount Horne of Slamannan.
Colonel Walter Elliot Elliot was a British politician of Scotland's Unionist Party prominent in the interwar period. He was elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in 1918,and besides an interval of months in 1923–24 and 1945-46,remained in parliament until his death. His Cabinet roles were as the Minister of Agriculture,Fisheries and Food in the National Government (1931–1935) of Ramsay MacDonald;as the Secretary of State for Scotland in the National Government (1935–1937) of Stanley Baldwin;and as Minister of Health in Neville Chamberlain's National Government (1937–1939) and the short-lived Chamberlain war ministry.
William Robert Wellesley Peel,1st Earl Peel,,known as The Viscount Peel from 1912 to 1929,was a British politician,as a local councillor,a Member of Parliament and a member of the House of Lords. After an early career as a barrister and journalist,he entered first local,then national politics. He rose to hold a number of ministerial positions,but is probably best remembered for chairing the Peel Commission in 1936–37,which recommended for the first time the partition of the British Mandate of Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states.
Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith PC was a British Liberal turned Labour politician who was briefly in the cabinet as President of the Board of Education in 1931. He was the acting Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 1940 during the time Clement Attlee was in government.
John William Mackail was a Scottish academic of Oxford University and reformer of the British education system.
William Douglas Weir,1st Viscount Weir GCB PC was a Scottish industrialist and politician,who served as President of the Air Council in 1918.
George Mathers,1st Baron Mathers KT,PC,DL was a Scottish trade unionist and Labour Party politician. He served as Comptroller of the Household from 1944 to 1945 in Winston Churchill's war-time coalition government and as Treasurer of the Household from 1945 to 1946 in Clement Attlee's post-war Labour administration.
Vere Brabazon Ponsonby,9th Earl of Bessborough,was an Anglo-Irish businessman and politician who served as Governor General of Canada,the fourteenth since Canadian Confederation.
Henry Graham White,known as Graham White,was a radical British Liberal Party politician.
Major Sir Murdoch McKenzie Wood OBE,DL was a Scottish Liberal politician.
Sir Percy Alfred Harris,1st Baronet,PC was a British Liberal Party politician. He was Liberal Chief Whip and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Parliamentary Party.
Edward Frank Wise CB was a British economist,civil servant and Labour Party politician. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1929 to 1931.
James Frederick "Fred" Henderson was an English socialist writer and journalist,and a Labour Party politician.
The 1945 Dissolution Honours List was issued on 7 June to mark the dissolution of the United Kingdom parliament prior to the 1945 general election.
