In the north aisle of the nave of Westminster Abbey lie the ashes of Prime Minister Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, PC, OM, CH, FRS. The inscription on the Indian black marble slab reads: ...

Clement Atlee was part of a middle-class family in London and studied at Oxford University ... When returning from the war, Attlee became the Mayor of Stepney in 1919 and MP for Limehouse in 1922.