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List of awards and honours received by Clement Attlee

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Clement Attlee received numerous honours in recognition of his career in politics. These included:

Hereditary peerage

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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

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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

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Commonwealth realms

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Country Date Decoration Post-nominal letters
 United Kingdom 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
 England 7 April 1956[2] Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter KG
 United Kingdom Unknown Knight of Justice of the Order of St John KStJ[3]

Decorations and medals

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Country Date Decoration Post-nominal letters
 United Kingdom 1919 1914–15 Star
 United Kingdom 26 July 1919 British War Medal
 United Kingdom 1 September 1919 WWI Victory Medal

Other distinctions

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Country Date Organisation Position
 United Kingdom 1961–1962 Association of Municipal Corporations President
 United Kingdom Unknown Worshipful Company of Innholders Freeman and Liveryman[3]

Scholastic

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University degrees

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Location Date School Degree
 England 1904 University College, Oxford Second-class honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Modern History
 England March 1906 Inner Temple Called to the bar[4]

Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships

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Location Date School Position
 England 15 December 1948 Queen Mary College Honorary Fellow
 England Unknown University College, Oxford Honorary Fellow
 England Unknown London School of Economics Honorary Fellow[3]

Honorary degrees

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Location Date School Degree
 England 1946 University of Cambridge Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[5]
 England 1946 University of Oxford Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)[6]
 Wales 1949 University of Wales Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[7]
 Scotland 21 June 1951 University of Glasgow Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[3][8][user-generated source?]
 England 1953 University of Nottingham Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[9]
 Ceylon Unknown University of Ceylon Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[3]
 India Unknown University of Madras Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[3]
 England Unknown University of Reading Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.)[3]
 England Unknown University of London Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[3]
 Scotland Unknown University of Aberdeen Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[3]
 England Unknown University of Hull Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[3]
 England Unknown University of Bristol Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)[3]

Memberships and fellowships

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Country Date Organisation Position
 United Kingdom 1946 Inner Temple Honorary Bencher[4]
 United Kingdom 1947 Royal Society Fellow (FRS)
 United Kingdom Unknown Royal Institute of British Architects Honorary Fellow (FRIBA)[3]

Freedom of the city

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  • England 18 October 1947: Birmingham
  • England 18 December 1951: Leeds[3]
  • England 20 November 1953: London[10]
  • England 1953: Manchester[3]
  • England 16 January 1956: Oxford[11]
  • Scotland 5 June 1956: Aberdeen[3]
  • England Unknown: Bristol[3]

Places named after Attlee

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Limerick

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Attlee referred to his many honours in a limerick he composed about his career:[14]

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

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  1. ^ "Attlee, Earl (UK, 1955)". Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  2. ^ List of Knights of the Garter
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p 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.
  4. ^ a b "Bio" (PDF). Inner Temple Library. 2017.
  5. ^ "Notable British Leaders Receive Honourary [sic] Cambridge Degrees". Pathé.
  6. ^ "Oxford University Awards Honourary [sic] Degrees". Pathé.
  7. ^ "Wales Honours Princess And Duke". Pathé.
  8. ^ "Fifth Centenary Commemoration Oration by Clement Attlee (1951)". 21 August 2014.
  9. ^ "Honours list" (PDF). University of Nottingham. 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 December 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  10. ^ "City Honours Mr. Attlee (1953)". British Pathé. 13 April 2014 – via YouTube.
  11. ^ "Freedom of the City". Oxford City Council.
  12. ^ Carruthers, Allan. "Legacy Of Clement Attlee Honoured In Naming Of New A Level Academy".
  13. ^ https://lbhf.locationshub.com/location_detail_content.aspx?id=999-10316&page=8&parent=search_results
  14. ^ Kenneth Harris, Attlee (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1982)
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