Clement Attlee

She was buried in Golders Green Cemetery. Her exceedingly brief obituary in The Times, written by her former boss Clement Attlee (now an earl) called her one of the ablest women who entered...

Her body was cremated and buried at Passfield Corner, until at Bernard Shaw 's somewhat incongruous suggestion, the ashes of both Webbs were re-buried together in Politicians' Corner, Westminster Abbey, on 12 December 1947...

In gaining her seat she polled more votes than any woman standing for Labour. As some male Labour MPs wore red ties, she wore red shoes in the House of Commons , and was soon...

JK 's father, Francis Aungier Pakenham, was an Oxford academic teaching political science when his daughter Judith was born. He was already a maverick: he commanded the Oxford Local Defence Volunteers (later the Home Guard)...

AF 's father, born Francis Aungier (Frank) Pakenham, was an Oxford academic whose subject was politics. He became the seventh Earl of Longford in 1961, but he had already been made Baron Pakenham by Clement Attlee

Maurice Percy Ashley in the Times Literary Supplement wrote that this sympathetic biography, while it contained little that was absolutely new, would make valuable reading for all but experts in its subject.David Leslie Murray

Without being lively in the usual sense, wrote the Times Literary Supplement reviewer, the book is live-minded all through.Clement Attlee in Hamilton's Times obituary singled out this book for praise, and within it...

By 1930, Kingsley Martin , editor of New Statesman and Nation, noted that Time and Tide was one of the leading British weeklies. It was read by the leaders of the country, including Prime...

Inspired by hearing Aneurin Bevan speak when she was a young evacuee in Wales,NB was passionately involved in the post-war election of 26 July 1945, which returned the Labour Party with a landslide majority...

As a schoolgirl GBS had a brief spell of interest in politics, when she admired Joseph Chamberlain , wanted to get into parliament, and supported tariff reform. In 1933 she was actually sounded out about...

During ER 's lifetime the leaders of both major political parties, Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee (whose regard for her was equally high), repeatedly urged her to accept honours of various kinds, but she refused...