Ethel Snowden (1881-1951), socialist and Save the Children Fund supporter.
Ethel Snowden (1881-1951), wife of the Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, was a suffrage campainger and socialist, and toured the country giving lectures for the socialist cause, for the National Union of Women’s Suffrage and the Women’s Peace Crusade. She was a vigorous supporter of two international organisations, the League of Nations and, from its earliest days, the Save the Children Fund. In 1926 she wrote ‘The British Standards of Child Welfare as Tested by the Declaration of Geneva’. 'Her eloquence and vitality were a great asset to the venture' [SCF] was written of her when she died.
Text by Anne George, Archivist, Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.
Cadbury Research Library ref. SCF/P/2/9 page 129.
Ethel Snowden (1881-1951), socialist and Save the Children Fund supporter.
Ethel Snowden (1881-1951), wife of the Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, was a suffrage campainger and socialist, and toured the country giving lectures for the socialist cause, for the National Union of Women’s Suffrage and the Women’s Peace Crusade. She was a vigorous supporter of two international organisations, the League of Nations and, from its earliest days, the Save the Children Fund. In 1926 she wrote ‘The British Standards of Child Welfare as Tested by the Declaration of Geneva’. 'Her eloquence and vitality were a great asset to the venture' [SCF] was written of her when she died.
Text by Anne George, Archivist, Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.
Cadbury Research Library ref. SCF/P/2/9 page 129.