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May 25, 2024 · Early life. Clement Attlee was the fourth son of Henry Attlee, a prosperous London solicitor, and Ellen Watson. He was educated at Haileybury College, a boarding school in Hertfordshire with a strong imperial tradition, and the University of Oxford. He was called to the bar in 1905 but abandoned law in 1909.
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Attlee was born on 3 January 1883 in Putney, Surrey (now part of London), into an upper middle-class family, the seventh of eight children. His father was Henry Attlee, a solicitor, and his mother was Ellen Bravery Watson, daughter of Thomas Simons Watson, secretary for the Art Union of London.
The Attlee (1883-1967) family were richer than the Churchills – the solicitor Henry Attlee left £70,000 in 1908 compared to Lord Randolph Churchill’s £54,000 in… Clement Attlee | Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister: Lord Liverpool
3 Jan 1883. Birth place. Putney, England. Died. 8 Oct 1967 (aged 84 years) Resting place. Westminster Abbey. About Clement Attlee. Clement Attlee was the leader who did the most to shape Britain after the Second World War. During his premiership the National Health Service was created.
Apr 19, 2018 · Henry Attlee was disgusted by the degeneration of the British Empire into a scramble for gold and diamonds, but that did not deter him from sending Clem, his seventh child and fourth son, to Haileybury College, the nursery for the Indian Civil Service.
May 21, 2018 · Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee (1883-1967), was prime minister of England from 1945 to 1951. He led the labour government that established the welfare state in Great Britain . Clement Attlee was born in Putney, near London, on Jan. 23, 1883, the son of Henry Attlee, a successful solicitor, and Ellen Watson Attlee, a cultivated and ...
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May 6, 2021 · Period. 20th Century. Clement Attlee: Labour's postwar leader. Labour’s postwar leader Clement Attlee presided over the most consequential raft of legislation in modern British history. Charlotte Lydia Riley provides a brief history of his life and legacy. Published: May 6, 2021 at 2:48 PM.
