List of awards and honours received by Clement Attlee

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.

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]

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

• Attlee A-level Academy at the New City College^[12]
• Attlee Way, Leicester 52.5974212°N 1.1350528°W / 52.5974212; -1.1350528
• The Clement Attlee Estate, Fulham^[13]

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.