List of honours of Clement Attlee
Appearance
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Clement Attlee received numerous honours in recognition of his career in politics. These included:
Hereditary peerage
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
As a peer of the realm, Attlee was entitled to use a personal coat of arms.
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Commonwealth honours
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Commonwealth realms
Country | Date | Decoration | Post-nominal letters |
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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 |
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1956 | Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter | KG |
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Unknown | Knight of Justice of the Order of St John | KStJ[2] |
Decorations and medals
Country | Date | Decoration | Post-nominal letters |
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1919 | 1914–15 Star | |
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26 July 1919 | British War Medal | |
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1 September 1919 | WWI Victory Medal |
Other distinctions
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Country | Date | Organisation | Position |
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1961–1962 | Association of Municipal Corporations | President |
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Unknown | Worshipful Company of Innholders | Freeman and Liveryman[2] |
Scholastic
University degrees
Location | Date | School | Degree |
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1904 | University College, Oxford | Second-class honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Modern History |
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March 1906 | Inner Temple | Called to the bar[3] |
Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships
Location | Date | School | Position |
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15 December 1948 | Queen Mary College | Honorary Fellow |
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Unknown | University College, Oxford | Honorary Fellow |
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Unknown | London School of Economics | Honorary Fellow[2] |
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Honorary degrees
Location | Date | School | Degree |
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1946 | University of Cambridge | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[4] |
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1946 | University of Oxford | Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)[5] |
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1949 | University of Wales | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[6] |
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21 June 1951 | University of Glasgow | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[2][7][user-generated source?] |
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1953 | University of Nottingham | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[8] |
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Unknown | University of Ceylon | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[2] |
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Unknown | University of Madras | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[2] |
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Unknown | University of Reading | Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.)[2] |
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Unknown | University of London | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[2] |
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Unknown | University of Aberdeen | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[2] |
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Unknown | University of Hull | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[2] |
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Unknown | University of Bristol | Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[2] |
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Memberships and fellowships
Country | Date | Organisation | Position |
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1946 | Inner Temple | Honorary Bencher[3] |
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1947 | Royal Society | Fellow (FRS) |
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Unknown | Royal Institute of British Architects | Honorary Fellow (FRIBA)[2] |
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Freedom of the city
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18 October 1947: Birmingham
18 December 1951: Leeds[2]
20 November 1953: London[9]
1953: Manchester[2]
16 January 1956: Oxford[10]
5 June 1956: Aberdeen[2]
Unknown: Bristol[2]
Places named after Attlee
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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
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
- ^ "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)