| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1916 |
| Number: | 3 - 1 |
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Nominee:
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| Name: | Sir Ralph Norman Angell Lane |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1872 |
| Year, Death: | 1967 |
| Profession: | Journalist, editor, author and lecturer. |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1933 |
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| Motivation: | Angell was nominated for his book "The Great Illusion" (1910). He claimed that it was an illusion that war could be profitable to a nation, and he also maintained that this illusion was going to lead Europe into a state of war. Angell also wrote "America and The New World-State" (1912). |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Edwin Doak Mead |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1849 |
| Year, Death: | 1937 |
| Profession: | Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau. |
| City: | Boston |
| State: | MA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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