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.
Commonwealth honours
Commonwealth realms Country Date Decoration Post-nominal letters 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 7 April 1956List of Knights of the Garter Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter KG Unknown Knight of Justice of the Order of St John ||
Decorations and medals Country Date Decoration Post-nominal letters 1919 1914–15 Star 26 July 1919 British War Medal 1 September 1919 WWI Victory Medal
Other distinctions
Country Date Organisation Position 1961–1962 Association of Municipal Corporations President Unknown Worshipful Company of Innholders Freeman and Liveryman
Scholastic
University degrees
Location Date School Degree 1904 University College, Oxford Second-class honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Modern History March 1906 Inner Temple Called to the bar
Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships Location Date School Position 15 December 1948 Queen Mary College Honorary Fellow Unknown University College, Oxford Honorary Fellow Unknown London School of Economics Honorary Fellow
Honorary degrees Location Date School Degree 1946 University of Cambridge Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) 1946 University of Oxford Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) 1949 University of Wales Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) 21 June 1951 University of Glasgow Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) 1953 University of Nottingham Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) Unknown University of Ceylon Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) Unknown University of Madras Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) Unknown University of Reading Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) Unknown University of London Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) Unknown University of Aberdeen Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) Unknown University of Hull Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) Unknown University of Bristol Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Memberships and fellowships Country Date Organisation Position 1946 Inner Temple Honorary Bencher 1947 Royal Society Fellow (FRS) Unknown Royal Institute of British Architects Honorary Fellow (FRIBA)
Freedom of the city
18 October 1947: Birmingham 18 December 1951: Leeds 20 November 1953: London 1953: Manchester 16 January 1956: Oxford 5 June 1956: Aberdeen Unknown: Bristol
Places named after Attlee
Attlee A-level Academy at the New City College Attlee Way, Leicester The Clement Attlee Estate, Fulham
Limerick Attlee referred to his many honours in a limerick he composed about his career:Kenneth Harris, Attlee (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1982)
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