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Clement Attlee received numerous honours in recognition of his career in politics. These included:
Hereditary peerage edit
Attlee was elevated to the House of Lords on 16 December 1955, upon his standing down as leader of the Labour Party and from his seat in the House of Commons. He took the title Earl Attlee, with the subsidiary title of Viscount Prestwood, of Walthamstow in the County of Essex. He sat with the Labour Party benches.
Coat of arms edit
As a peer of the realm, Attlee was entitled to use a personal coat of arms.
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Commonwealth honours edit
Commonwealth realms edit
Country | Date | Decoration | Post-nominal letters |
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United Kingdom | 1935 | Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council | PC |
Commonwealth realms | 8 June 1945 | Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour | CH |
Commonwealth realms | 5 November 1951 | Member of the Order of Merit | OM |
England | 1956 | Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter | KG |
United Kingdom | Unknown | Knight of Justice of the Order of St John | KStJ[2] |
Decorations and medals edit
Country | Date | Decoration | Post-nominal letters |
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United Kingdom | 1919 | 1914–15 Star | |
United Kingdom | 26 July 1919 | British War Medal | |
United Kingdom | 1 September 1919 | WWI Victory Medal |
Other distinctions edit
Country | Date | Organisation | Position |
---|---|---|---|
United Kingdom | 1961–1962 | Association of Municipal Corporations | President |
United Kingdom | Unknown | Worshipful Company of Innholders | Freeman and Liveryman[2] |
Scholastic edit
University degrees edit
Location | Date | School | Degree |
---|---|---|---|
England | 1904 | University College, Oxford | Second-class honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Modern History |
England | March 1906 | Inner Temple | Called to the bar[3] |
Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships edit
Location | Date | School | Position |
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England | 15 December 1948 | Queen Mary College | Honorary Fellow |
England | Unknown | University College, Oxford | Honorary Fellow |
England | Unknown | London School of Economics | Honorary Fellow[2] |
Honorary degrees edit
Location | Date | School | Degree |
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England | 1946 | University of Cambridge | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[4] |
England | 1946 | University of Oxford | Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)[5] |
Wales | 1949 | University of Wales | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[6] |
Scotland | 21 June 1951 | University of Glasgow | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[2][7][user-generated source?] |
England | 1953 | University of Nottingham | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[8] |
Ceylon | Unknown | University of Ceylon | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[2] |
India | Unknown | University of Madras | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[2] |
England | Unknown | University of Reading | Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.)[2] |
England | Unknown | University of London | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[2] |
Scotland | Unknown | University of Aberdeen | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[2] |
England | Unknown | University of Hull | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[2] |
England | Unknown | University of Bristol | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[2] |
Memberships and fellowships edit
Country | Date | Organisation | Position |
---|---|---|---|
United Kingdom | 1946 | Inner Temple | Honorary Bencher[3] |
United Kingdom | 1947 | Royal Society | Fellow (FRS) |
United Kingdom | Unknown | Royal Institute of British Architects | Honorary Fellow (FRIBA)[2] |
Freedom of the city edit
Places named after Attlee edit
- Attlee A Level Academy at the New City College[11]
- Attlee Way, Leicester 52°35′51″N 1°08′06″W / 52.5974212°N 1.1350528°W
- The Clement Attlee Estate, Fulham[12]
Limerick edit
Attlee referred to his many honours in a limerick he composed about his career:[13]
There were few who thought him a starter,
Many who thought themselves smarter.
But he ended PM,
CH and OM,
an Earl and a Knight of the Garter.
References edit
- ^ "Attlee, Earl (UK, 1955)". Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Bridges, Edward Ettingdean (1968). "Clement Richard Attlee, First Earl Attlee, 1883-1967". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 14: 15–36. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1968.0002. S2CID 72489518.
- ^ a b "Bio" (PDF). Inner Temple Library. 2017.
- ^ "Notable British Leaders Receive Honourary [sic] Cambridge Degrees". Pathé.
- ^ "Oxford University Awards Honourary [sic] Degrees". Pathé.
- ^ "Wales Honours Princess And Duke". Pathé.
- ^ "Fifth Centenary Commemoration Oration by Clement Attlee (1951)". 21 August 2014.
- ^ "Honours list" (PDF). University of Nottingham. 2018.
- ^ "City Honours Mr. Attlee (1953)". British Pathé. 13 April 2014 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Freedom of the City". Oxford City Council.
- ^ Carruthers, Allan. "Legacy Of Clement Attlee Honoured In Naming Of New A Level Academy".
- ^ https://lbhf.locationshub.com/location_detail_content.aspx?id=999-10316&page=8&parent=search_results
- ^ Kenneth Harris, Attlee (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1982)