Sir Norman Angell was an English economist. He was one of the principal founders of the Union of Democratic Control (UDC). The UDC was a British pressure group formed during the First World War to press for a more responsive foreign policy.
Angell served in the Council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He was an executive for the World Committee against War and Fascism. He was also a member of the executive committee of the League of Nations Union. From the mid-1930s, Angell actively campaigned for collective international opposition to the aggressive policies of Germany, Italy, and Japan.
He was born on 26th December 1872 in England. Angell won the Nobel Peace Prize in the year 1933 for his initiatives for international peace.
He invented ‘The Money Game’, a series of card games using paper money to teach the fundamentals of currency and credit. A lifelong bachelor, he died at ninety-four in a home for the aged in Croydon, England.
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