Autographs of Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. He was Deputy Prime Minister during the wartime coalition government under Winston Churchill, and served twice as Leader of the Opposition from 1935 to 1940 and from 1951 to 1955. Attlee remains the longest serving Labour leader and is widely considered by historians and members of the public through various polls to be one of the greatest Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom. More about Clement Attlee
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Attlee was born into an upper-middle-class family, the son of a wealthy London solicitor. After attending Haileybury College and the University of Oxford, he practised as a barrister. The volunteer work he carried out in London's East End exposed him to poverty, and his political views shifted leftwards thereafter. He joined the Independent Labour Party, gave up his legal career, and began lecturing at the London School of Economics; with his work briefly interrupted by service in the First World War. In 1919, he became mayor of Stepney and in 1922 was elected as the Member for Limehouse. Attlee served in the first Labour minority government led by Ramsay MacDonald in 1924, and then joined the Cabinet during MacDonald's second minority (1929–1931). After retaining his seat in Labour's landslide defeat of 1931, he became the party's Deputy Leader. Elected Leader of the Labour Party in 1935, and at first advocating pacificism and opposing re-armament, he became a critic of Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement in the lead-up to the Second World War. Attlee took Labour into the wartime coalition government in 1940 and served under Winston Churchill, initially as Lord Privy Seal and then as Deputy Prime Minister from 1942.
As the European front of WWII reached its conclusion, the war cabinet headed by Churchill was dissolved and elections were scheduled to be held. The Labour Party, led by Attlee, won a landslide victory in the 1945 general election, on their post-war recovery platform. Following the election, Attlee led the construction of the first Labour majority government. His government's Keynesian approach to economic management aimed to maintain full employment, a mixed economy and a greatly enlarged system of social services provided by the state. To this end, it undertook the nationalisation of public utilities and major industries, and implemented wide-ranging social reforms, including the passing of the National Insurance Act 1946 and National Assistance Act 1948, the formation of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, and the enlargement of public subsidies for council house building. His government also reformed trade union legislation, working practices and children's services; it created the National Parks system, passed the New Towns Act 1946 and established the town and country planning system. The Attlee government proved itself to be a radical, reforming government. From 1945 to 1948, over 200 public Acts of Parliament were passed, with eight major pieces of legislation placed on the statute book in 1946 alone. Read even more about Clement Attlee at Wikipedia
As the European front of WWII reached its conclusion, the war cabinet headed by Churchill was dissolved and elections were scheduled to be held. The Labour Party, led by Attlee, won a landslide victory in the 1945 general election, on their post-war recovery platform. Following the election, Attlee led the construction of the first Labour majority government. His government's Keynesian approach to economic management aimed to maintain full employment, a mixed economy and a greatly enlarged system of social services provided by the state. To this end, it undertook the nationalisation of public utilities and major industries, and implemented wide-ranging social reforms, including the passing of the National Insurance Act 1946 and National Assistance Act 1948, the formation of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, and the enlargement of public subsidies for council house building. His government also reformed trade union legislation, working practices and children's services; it created the National Parks system, passed the New Towns Act 1946 and established the town and country planning system. The Attlee government proved itself to be a radical, reforming government. From 1945 to 1948, over 200 public Acts of Parliament were passed, with eight major pieces of legislation placed on the statute book in 1946 alone. Read even more about Clement Attlee at Wikipedia
Traded items with a signature of Clement Attlee
The most expensive item with a signature of Clement Attlee (C. R. (Clement) Attlee - As It Happened - signed 1954 UK 1st with card & note) was sold in May 2021 for £850.00 while the cheapest item (ARTHUR GREENWOOD A GOOD HAND SIGNED AUTOGRAPH CLEMENT ATTLEE PAYMASTER GENERAL) found a new owner for £2.99 in October 2021. The month with the most items sold (6) was August 2013 with an average selling price of £46.27 for an autographed item of Clement Attlee. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in July 2018 with £360.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £2.99 was October 2021. In average, an autographed item from Clement Attlee is worth £68.66.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Clement Attlee were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Item Title | Price | Store | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | ARTHUR GREENWOOD A GOOD HAND SIGNED AUTOGRAPH CLEMENT ATTLEE PAYMASTER GENERAL | £2.99 | |
| Clement Attlee & Violet Attlee Autographs on 10 Downing St Photo Xmas Card 1949 | £45.00 | |
| CLEMENT ATTLEE & VIOLET ATTLEE HAND SIGNED 10 DOWNING STREET CHRISTMAS CARD 1950 | £29.00 | |
| CLEMENT ATTLEE 1935 Signed Letter to New MP, Autograph, Labour Prime Minister | £120.00 | |
| CLEMENT ATTLEE A GOOD HAND SIGNED LETTER FROM THE LATE UK LABOUR PRIME MINISTER | £79.00 | |
| CLEMENT ATTLEE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER 1945-1951 LABOUR RARE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH | £125.00 | |
| CLEMENT ATTLEE GOOD HAND SIGNED LETTER FROM PRIME MINISTER FIRST SIGNED AS LORD! | £62.00 | |
| CLEMENT ATTLEE GOOD HANDWRITTEN SIGNED LETTER FROM LATE LABOUR PRIME MINISTER | £73.52 | |
| CLEMENT ATTLEE GOOD HANDWRITTEN SIGNED LETTER FROM LATE LABOUR PRIME MINISTER | £53.00 | |
| CLEMENT ATTLEE HANDWRITTEN SIGNED DOMINIONS LETTER PRIME MINISTER DOWNING ST. | £360.00 | |
| CLEMENT ATTLEE HANDWRITTEN SIGNED LETTER FROM THE LATE UK LABOUR PRIME MINISTER | £162.00 | |
| CLEMENT ATTLEE HANDWRITTEN SIGNED LETTER FROM THE LATE UK LABOUR PRIME MINISTER | £210.00 | |
| CLEMENT ATTLEE HANDWRITTEN SIGNED LETTER FROM THE LATE UK LABOUR PRIME MINISTER | £88.00 | |
| GB 1947 Letter Signed by Clement Attlee as Prime Minister on 10 Downing St Paper | £99.99 | |
| Vintage Signed Autograph Ticket - Labour Prime Minister - Clement Attlee | £125.00 | |
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