Violet Attlee, Countess Attlee
(1895-1964)
BIRTH
November 20, 1895
PLACE
Hampstead, England
NAME
Violet Helen Millar
DEATH
June 7, 1964
PLACE
Amersham, England
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Violet Attlee was the wife of the British Labour prime minister Clement Attlee, whom she supported through his political career, often driving him on election campaigns. She grew up there in a comfortable middle-class family. She was known for driving him around the country during general election campaigns in the family car. After he left office, they lived in retirement in Buckinghamshire. She died at Amersham, Buckinghamshire, on June 7, 1964.
EARLY LIFE
Violet Helen Millar was born on November 20, 1895, in Hampstead, London, the daughter of Henry Edward Millar, a well-to-do businessman, and his wife, Ada Margaret Prance. She grew up there in a comfortable middle-class family. In 1921 she traveled to Italy on a holiday with her mother and her brother Cedric, where she met Clement Attlee, a Labour politician and former mayor of Stepney and an Oxford friend of her brother. The two fell in love during the trip, and they married on January 10, 1922, at Christ Church, Hampstead. They had four children, three daughters and a son, Martin.
Violet supported her husband's political career throughout his decades in Parliament. She was known for driving him around the country during general election campaigns in the family car.
When Attlee became prime minister in 1945, she served as his hostess at 10 Downing Street and at Chequers until 1951. After he left office, they lived in retirement in Buckinghamshire.
Violet Attlee died at Amersham, Buckinghamshire, on June 7, 1964.
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Violet Attlee was the wife of the British Labour prime minister Clement Attlee, whom she supported through his political career, often driving him on election campaigns. Frequently in poor health, Violet Attlee took ill suddenly, and was admitted to Amersham Hospital on 7 June 1964. After he left office, they lived in retirement in Buckinghamshire. She died at Amersham, Buckinghamshire, on June 7, 1964. Violet supported her husband's political career throughout his decades in Parliament. She was known for driving him around the country during general election campaigns in the family car. When Attlee became prime minister in 1945, she served as his hostess at 10 Downing Street and at Chequers until 1951. Violet Attlee died at Amersham, Buckinghamshire, on June 7, 1964. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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