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A Short Biography of Clement Richard Attlee

Author Name:

Clement Richard Attlee

Born As:

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee

Other Names:

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC

Born:

3 Jan 1883

Died:

8 Oct 1967




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Labour Politician                          
                          
Mother Ellen Bravery Watson 
Father Henry Attlee - the seventh of eight children.
Wife Violet Attlee - four children
Janet Helen 
Lady Felicity Ann 
Martin Richard 
Lady Alison Elizabeth 
                          
1945-1951 - Prime Minister of Britain
Was the first Labour Prime Minister to serve a full Parliamentary term and the first to have a majority in Parliament.
His government also presided over the decolonisation of a large part of the British Empire, in which India and the countries that are now Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Pakistan obtained independence.
In 2004, he was voted as the greatest British prime minister of the 20th century in a poll of professors organised by MORI.