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Great Britain · Politics / Labour Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

7Records
1955–1997Date range
7Named people
4Places

Chronological records

1955

Clement Richard Attlee Attlee, 1st16 December 1955

Politics / Labour Party

Created Earl Attlee and Viscount Prestwood

1959

Herbert Morrison Lambeth, 1st1959

Lambeth · Politics / Labour Party

Created Baron Lambeth, 1st

1974

Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker Gordon-WalkerJuly 1974

Leyton · Politics / Labour Party

Created a life peer as Baron Gordon-Walker, of Leyton in Greater London

1983

Harold Wilson Rievaulx16 September 1983

London · Politics / Labour Party

Created Baron Wilson of Rievaulx as a life peer

1987

James Callaghan1987

Politics / Labour Party

Made a life peer

1990

Barbara Anne Castle Blackburn1990

Politics / Labour Party

Created Baroness Castle of Blackburn, of Ibstone in the County of Buckinghamshire

1997

Peter David Shore Stepney5 June 1997

Stepney · Politics / Labour Party

Created Baron Shore of Stepney

Names involved

Barbara Anne Castle BlackburnClement Richard Attlee Attlee, 1stHarold Wilson RievaulxHerbert Morrison Lambeth, 1stJames CallaghanPatrick Chrestien Gordon Walker Gordon-WalkerPeter David Shore Stepney

Provenance

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