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  Clement Attlee information - Search.com
Attlee was Lord Privy Seal (1940-1942), Deputy Prime Minister (1942-1945), Dominions Secretary (1942-1943), and Lord President of the Council (1943-1945).
Attlee's government was also responsible for the nationalisation of utilities such as coal mining, the steel industry, and the creation of British Railways.
Attlee led the party in opposition until 1955, when he retired from the Commons and was elevated to the peerage to take his seat in the House of Lords as Earl Attlee and Viscount Prestwood on 16 December 1955.
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Attlee served in the first two Labour governments, as under-secretary of state for war in 1924 with Ramsay MacDonald, then as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and later Postmaster General in the 1929 to 1931 MacDonald government.
Attlee was his regular deputy in committee and in parliament, and chaired the lord president's committee, which ran the civil side of the war.
Attlee led the party in opposition until 1955, when he retired from the commons and was elevated to the peerage to take his seat in the House of Lords as Earl Attlee and Viscount Prestwood on 16 December 1955.
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 Clement Attlee
Attlee became a lecturer at the London School of Economics in 1913, but enlisted promptly for World War I.\n \nHaving reached Major, and been seriously wounded, he became mayor of the London borough of Stepney in 1919 and a Labour MP for the Limehouse division of Stepney in 1922.
Political opponents of Attlee's government were sometimes caricatured as having nothing to criticise in its record with the sole exception of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme.\nThe Labour Party was returned to power in the general election of 1950.
Attlee's self-description was in the form of a limerick:\n:Few thought he was even a starter.
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 Clement Attlee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, FRS (January 3, 1883 - October 8, 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951.
When Lansbury resigned the leadership in 1935, Attlee was appointed as an interim leader until after the general election that year.
Attlee was Lord Privy Seal (1940-1942), Deputy Prime Minister (1942), Dominions Secretary (1942-1943), and Lord President of the Council (1943-1945).
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 Clement Attlee - The Encyclopedia
The Right Honourable Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951.
In the post election leadership contest Attlee was elected, beating both Herbert Morrison and Arthur Greenwood, and remained leader of the party until 1955 - to date, Labour's longest-serving party leader.
Attlee's first Health Secretary, Aneurin Bevan, fought against general medical disapproval, to create the British National Health Service that still survives today and is often just as controversial as then.
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 Clement Attlee Summary
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee (1883-1967), was prime minister of England from 1945 to 1951.
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 educated woman.
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, FRS, PC (3 January 1883–8 October 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1945 to 1951.
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 List of the Knights of the Garter
Afterwards Earl of Warwick and Duke of Northumberland.
395 (inv 1603) Ludovick (Stuart), 2nd Duke of Lennox.
638 (inv 1812) Francis (Rawdon-Hastings), 2nd Earl of Moira.
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 Wikipedia: Clement Attlee
Political opponents of Attlee's government were sometimes caricatured as having nothing to criticise in its record with the sole exception of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme.
An earl and a Knight of the Garter.
December 1946 - Albert Victor Alexander succeeds Attlee as Minister of Defence.
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 Clement Attlee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Attlee served in the first two British Labour PartyLabour governments, as under-secretary of state for war in 1924 with Ramsay MacDonald, then as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and later United Kingdom Postmaster GeneralPostmaster General in the 1929 to 1931 MacDonald government.
Attlee was Lord Privy Seal (1940-1942), Deputy Prime Minister of the United KingdomDeputy Prime Minister (1942), Secretary of State for Dominion AffairsDominions Secretary (1942-1943), and Lord President of the Council (1943-1945/).
The third earl (a member of the Conservative Party (UK)Conservative Party) retained his seat in the Lords as one of the few hereditary peers elected to the House under an amendment to the 1999 House of Lords Act/.
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 List of the Knights of the Garter (1348-present)
633 (inv 1812) Francis Conway (Ingram-Seymour-Conway), 2nd Marquess of Hertford.
Her marriage to William 2nd Earl of Salisbury, K.G., was declared by Pope Clement VI null and void.
Earl of Hereford, K.G. Married Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of Buckingham, K.G., afterwards Duke of Gloucester.
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 Articles - Martin Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Martin Richard Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee (10 August 1927- 27 July 1991) was a British politician, son of former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, the first Earl Attlee.
Martin inherited the title on his father's death in 1967.
Originally sitting on the Labour benches, as his father had done, Attlee defected to the SDP in 1982.
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 thePeerage.com - Louis François de Conti, Prince de Conti and others
     Martin Richard Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee was educated at Southampton Nautical College, Southampton, Hampshire, England.
She married Martin Richard Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee, son of Sir Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee and Violet Helen Millar, on 16 February 1955.
She married Martin Richard Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee, son of Sir Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee and Violet Helen Millar, in 1988.
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 Earl Attlee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Earl Attlee of Walthamstow is a title in the hereditary peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1955, along with the title Viscount Prestwood, for the former Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Clement Attlee.
Martin Richard Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee (1927 - 1991)
John Richard Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee (born 3 October 1956)
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 John Richard Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
John Richard Attlee (3rd Earl Attlee) was born in 1956 and educated at Stowe School from where he went into Industry.
Prior to taking his seat in 1992 Lord Attlee had no experience of debating, public speaking, politics or local government.
The 3rd Earl Attlee is grandson of Clement Attlee, former British Labour Prime Minister.
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He is the son of Martin Richard Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee and Anne Barbara Henderson.
She married John Richard Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee, son of Martin Richard Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee and Anne Barbara Henderson, in 1993.
She was the daughter of Tommaso di Savoia-Genova, 2nd Duca di Genova and Isabella Marie Elisabeth Prinzessin von Bayern.
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 Earl Attlee. Who is Earl Attlee? What is Earl Attlee? Where is Earl Attlee? Definition of Earl Attlee. Meaning of Earl ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Earl Attlee of Walthamstow is a title in the hereditary peerage of the United Kingdom created on 16 December 1955, along with the title Viscount Prestwood, for the former Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Clement Attlee.
The title is currently held by Clement Attlee's grandson John, who sits in the House of Lords as a member of the Conservative Party.
List of Earls in order of precedence
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 Attlee
Earl Attlee Earl Attlee is a title in the hereditary Conservative Party.
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 Clement Attlee
University College, Oxford, Attlee trained as a lawyer.
Attlee served in the first two Labour governments, as under-secretary of state for war in 1924 with
Attlee led the party in opposition until 1955, when he retired from the commons and was elevated to the peerage to take his seat in the House of Lords as Earl Attlee and Viscount Prestwood on
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 Clement Attlee biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
In 2004 he has voted by a poll organised by Gallup as the most effective British Prime Minister in the 20th century.
Several controversal policies were inacted, including the nationalisation of utilities and the long-distance transport system and the creation of the modern Welfare State.
Sir Hartley Shawcross succeeds Harold Wilson (resigned) as President of the Board of Trade.
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 Westminster Abbey [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Clement Attlee, 1st Earl AttleeClement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, FRS (January 3, 1883 - October 8, 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951.
In 1631 he was proctor and also chaplain to Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, then chancellor of the university, which gave him the rectory of Bishopston in Wiltshire.
Horsley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767; and secretary in 1773, but, in consequence of a difference with the president (Sir Joseph Banks) he withdrew in 1784.
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 Top 100 Books About Churchill
The first two categories are general biographies of Churchill, the second being promarily collections of photos, with varying amounts of captions or text.
If you had to pick just one, it would difficult to go wrong with Martin Gilbert.
The kind words by Churchill’s Commons foes such as Clem Attlee and Manny Shinwell remind us of days of political good manners which seem gone forever.
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 Essential World Architecture Images- architecture in the Da Vinci Code- Westminster Abbey
Sir Roland Hill (in the Chapel of St. Paul), buried in Highgate Cemetery, London
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, buried at Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire
Oscar Wilde (in a stained glass window unveiled in 1995), buried in Paris [1]
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 Churchill College: Churchill Archives Centre: Guide to Holdings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Autobiography of General Sir Philip and memoirs and letters relating to Sir Alexander's medical service in 2nd Burmese War, 1851-4.
Press officer, Ministry of Health, 1939-49; and Home Controller, 1949-52, and Director-General, 1954-71, of the Central Office of Information, including adviser to the Prime Minister on public relations, 1952-5, and to the Earl Marshal on arrangements for the Coronation, 1953.
Correspondence between Martin Gilbert and Robert Hastings relating to Gilbert's work on the official biography and other Churchill projects, 1965-1995
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 National Portrait Gallery | Search the collection | Recent Acquisitions
Novelist and traveller; sister of the Earl of Auckland
Prince Edward (Antony Richard Louis), Earl of Wessex; Sophie (Rhys-Jones), Countess of Wessex
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H OHE.
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 Reader's Guide to British History -- A-Z Entries List
Asquith, Herbert Henry, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith
Harley, Robert, 1st Earl of Oxford; Earl Mortimer
Rawdon-Hastings, Francis, 1st Marquis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira
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