For
Winston Churchill see Nobel
Prize Winners for Literature
Born
in Mayfair in 1903,
Alec Douglas-Home
became Prime Minister in 1963-64.
Alec Douglas-Home
Prime
Minister from 1905-08,
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
died at 10
Downing Street in 1908, a few weeks after resigning.
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Andrew
Bonar Law
became Prime Minister in 1922-23. He died at his home at 24 Onslow
Gardens in Chelsea in 1923. His ashes are interred at Westminster
Abbey.
Andrew
Bonar Law
Famous
people buried at Westminster Abbey
Neville
Chamberlain,
Prime Minister from 1937-40, died
6 months after leaving office and his
ashes are interred at
Westminster Abbey. In the interests of peace Chamberlain followed
a controversial policy of appeasement towards Adolf Hitler, signing
the Munich Agreement in 1938 after the invasion of Czechoslovakia.
When the policy failed he declared war on Germany a year later, but
criticism of his leadership and early military defeats led him to
stand down in 1940 in favour of Winston Churchill.
Neville
Chamberlain
Famous
people buried at Westminster Abbey
Prime Minister from 2010-16 David
Cameron
was born in London in 1966.
David
Cameron
Prime
Minister in 1945-51, Clement
Attlee
died in 1967 at Westminster Hospital. His ashes are interred at Westminster
Abbey. His Labour administration governed in the turbulent post-war
years and revolutionized British society by introducing the Welfare
State
including in 1948 the National Health Service. In 1947 and 1948 India
and Burma gained independence, the beginnings of the dismantling of
the British Empire.
Clement
Attlee
Welfare State
Famous
people buried at Westminster Abbey
Harold
Wilson,
twice Prime Minister in 1964-70 and 1974-76, died in London in 1995.
He is buried at St Mary's on the Isles of Scilly off the coast of
Cornwall.
Harold
Wilson
A week is a long time in politics.
(1964)
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