ATTLEE, CLEMENT (RICHARD), 1ST EARL ATTLEE OF ...

born January 3, 1883, Putney, London, Eng. died October 8, 1967, Westminster, London Attlee, photograph by Yousuf Karsh. British Labour Party leader (193555) and prime minister (194551). He presided over the establishment of the welfare state in Great Britain and the granting of independence to India, the most important step in the conversion of the British Empire into the Commonwealth of Nations.