Julian Snow, Baron Burntwood

For the real tennis player, see Julian Snow (real tennis).

Julian Ward Snow, Baron Burntwood (24 February 1910 – 24 January 1982) was a British Labour Party politician.

The Right Honourable The Lord Burntwood
Under-Secretary of State for Social Services
In office 1 November 1968 – 13 October 1969
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Office created
Succeeded by	John Dunwoody
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health
In office 7 January 1967 – 1 November 1968
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Charles Loughlin
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Parliamentary Secretary for Aviation
In office 6 April 1966 – 7 January 1967
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	John Stonehouse
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Parliamentary Secretary for Technology
In office 19 October 1964 – 6 April 1966
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Office created
Succeeded by	Peter Shore
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
In office 10 August 1945 – 9 December 1946
Prime Minister	Clement Attlee
Preceded by	Arthur Young
Succeeded by	Michael Stewart
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage 21 September 1970 – 24 January 1982
Member of Parliament for Lichfield and Tamworth
In office 23 February 1950 – 18 June 1970
Preceded by	Cecil Poole
Succeeded by	Jack d'Avigdor-Goldsmid
Member of Parliament for Portsmouth Central
In office 5 July 1945 – 23 February 1950
Preceded by	Ralph Beaumont
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	Julian Ward Snow (1910-02-24)24 February 1910
Died	24 January 1982(1982-01-24) (aged 71)
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Flavia Blois ​ (m. 1948)​
Children	1

Political career

He was a Member of Parliament for Portsmouth Central from 1945. When that constituency was abolished he represented Lichfield and Tamworth from 1950 until stepping down at the 1970 general election, when his seat was won for the Conservatives by James d'Avigdor-Goldsmid. After his retirement he was created a life peer on 21 September 1970 as Baron Burntwood, of Burntwood in the County of Stafford.^[1]

During his time as an MP, Snow also served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health.

He never made a speech from the backbenches, although he did speak in his role as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household.^[2]

Personal life

Lord Burntwood was employed by Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd in India and East Africa in 1930–1937. He joined the Royal Artillery in 1939 and served till the end of World War II. He married the artist Flavia Blois, daughter of Sir Ralph Barrett MacNaghten Blois, 9th Bt., and Winifred Grace Hegan Kennard, on 20 August 1948. They had one daughter; she died in 1980.^[3]

Lord Burntwood was a founding member and the first chairman of the Institution of Environmental Sciences, which holds the annual Burntwood Lecture in his memory.