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Apr 17, 2013 · Clement Attlee, with his wife Violet, after Labour's victory in the 1945 general election. Photograph: J. A. Hampton/Getty Images. ... October 1967: A quiet funeral for Lord Attlee.
Clement Attlee 1883-1967 Prime Minister 1945-1951 for twenty years leader of the Labour Party. He was born on 3rd January 1883 in London, a son of Henry and his wife Ellen (Watson). Educated at Haileybury College and Oxford university he went on to become a lawyer. In the poorer parts of London he did social work at a boys club and became ...
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FIFTY years ago tomorrow, on October 8, 1967, Britain’s first post-Second World War prime minister, Clement Attlee, died of pneumonia in Westminster Hospital. His funeral was attended by 2000 people, and warm and generous tributes were paid to him by all political parties, who recognised that he had transformed the UK and arguably a large ...
Other world leaders who joined in the tributes included former British prime ministers Clement Attlee, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, and Sir Alec Douglas-Home, French President Charles de Gaulle, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin, former US presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Pope Paul VI. Authorisation of state funeral
Oct 7, 2022 · Truly an Honourable Member. Rod Garner celebrates the life of Clement Attlee, who died 55 years ago on Saturday. Clement Attlee with King George VI in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, 1945. Attlee had just led the Labour Party to victory in the General Election, and thus become Prime Minister. HE WAS “a modest little man, with plenty to be ...
TRIBUTES TO THE LATE EARL ATTLEE. HC Deb 23 October 1967 vol 751 cc1355-67 1355. § 3.37 p.m. § The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson) Since we last met the House and the country have suffered a grievous loss by the death of Lord Attlee. He was a Member of this House for 33 years, and since 1955 had maintained his connection with the ...
Abroad, Attlee began decolonisation, while binding the UK into NATO. Many consider him the greatest of Britain’s Prime Ministers. Clement Attlee was born in a middle-class family in Putney. He was educated at Haileybury and University College, Oxford. He graduated in 1904, and then trained as a barrister at the Inner Temple, being called to ...
