Honours_of_Clement_Attlee

List of honours of Clement Attlee

List of honours of Clement Attlee

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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.

Coat of arms of Clement Attlee
Coronet
A coronet of an Earl
Crest
On a Mount Vert two Lions addorsed Or
Escutcheon
Azure, on a Chevron Or between three Hearts of the Last winged Argent as many Lions rampant Sable
Supporters
On either side a Welsh Terrier sejant Proper
Motto
Labor vincit omnia (Labour conquers all)[1]

Commonwealth honours

Commonwealth realms

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Decorations and medals

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Other distinctions

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Scholastic

University degrees

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Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships

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Honorary degrees

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Memberships and fellowships

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Freedom of the city

  • England 18 October 1947: Birmingham
  • England 18 December 1951: Leeds[2]
  • England 20 November 1953: London[9]
  • England 1953: Manchester[2]
  • England 16 January 1956: Oxford[10]
  • Scotland 5 June 1956: Aberdeen[2]
  • England Unknown: Bristol[2]

Places named after Attlee

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

  1. "Attlee, Earl (UK, 1955)". Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  2. 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.
  3. "Bio" (PDF). Inner Temple Library. 2017.
  4. "Honours list" (PDF). University of Nottingham. 2018.
  5. "City Honours Mr. Attlee (1953)". British Pathé. 13 April 2014 via YouTube.
  6. "Freedom of the City". Oxford City Council.
  7. Kenneth Harris, Attlee (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1982)

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