Clement Attlee
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, leader of the Labour Party, and architect of the post-war welfare state.
Clement Attlee was born on 3 January 1883 in Putney, Surrey, into an upper middle class family with a solicitor father and a mother from a well-connected family.[1][2] Despite winning the most votes in 1951, his party lost the general election, and he retired as Labour leader after the 1955 election.[3]
Quick Facts
- Office
- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Monarch
- George VI
- Deputy
- Herbert Morrison
- Took office
- 26 July 1945
- Left office
- 26 October 1951
- Predecessor
- Winston Churchill
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
Attlee attended Haileybury College and then University College, Oxford, where he read modern history and graduated with second-class honours in 1904.[4] After being called to the bar in 1906, he worked briefly at his father's law firm and played football for non-League club Fleet.[5] His political views shifted from conservative to socialist after he volunteered at a charitable club for working-class boys in Stepney and was shocked by the poverty he witnessed.[6] He entered Parliament as MP for Limehouse in 1922 and held ministerial posts in the first and second Labour governments.[6]
Attlee became a member of the Independent Labour Party in 1908 and entered local politics, and in 1919 he was elected mayor of Stepney's Metropolitan Borough.[6]
What the cited sources add
The Spartacus Education account notes that Attlee's father Henry was a political Liberal who had inherited family interests in milling and brewing.[2][4] The Spartacus Education account notes that Attlee's brother Tom was a conscientious objector during the war.[6][2]
References
- Wikipedia, "Clement Attlee" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Davies, Edward J. "The Ancestry of Clement Attlee", Genealogists' Magazine, 31 (2013–15): 380–387.; "Clement Attlee", Spartacus Education (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- "Clement Attlee", Spartacus Education. facts only, no text reused. spartacus-educational.com
- Wikipedia, "Clement Attlee" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Kenneth Harris, Attlee (1982). pp.566–569; Robert Pearce, Attlee (1967) pp1-5, 189–190; John Bew, Clement Attlee (2017), pp. 546–553.; "Rating British Prime Ministers", Ipsos MORI, 29 November 2004 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Clement Attlee" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Clement Attlee", Spartacus Education (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Clement Attlee" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Beckett 1998, p. 17; Borrows, "Why football can be a dangerous game for politicians", The Daily Telegraph, 27 April 2015; "Attlee Henry of 10 Billiter-square London and Westcott Portinscull-road Putney Surrey died 19 November 1908" in Probate Index for 1908 at probatesearch.service (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Clement Attlee" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Beckett 1998, p. 17 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
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