Editing Clement Attlee (section)

==Death==
Attlee died peacefully in his sleep of [[pneumonia]], at the age of 84 at [[Westminster Hospital]] on 8 October 1967.{{sfn|Beckett|1998}} Two thousand people attended his funeral in November, including the then-Prime Minister [[Harold Wilson]] and the [[Prince Edward, Duke of Kent|Duke of Kent]], representing [[Elizabeth II|the Queen]]. He was cremated and his ashes were buried at [[Westminster Abbey]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Prime ministers' funerals from Pitt to Heath|work=BBC News|date=15 April 2013|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22078727|access-date=4 September 2016|last1=Parkinson|first1=Justin|last2=Davies|first2=Chris|archive-date=11 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311033456/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22078727|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Earl Attlee's Remains Interred Aka Service Of Memorial And Burial For Earl Attlee (1967)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5iUfLJlLfI&hd=1| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/C5iUfLJlLfI| archive-date=30 October 2021|via=Youtube| date=13 April 2014 |work=[[Pathe News|Warner-Pathé]]|access-date=18 July 2017|url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Upon his death, the title passed to his son [[Martin Richard Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee]] (1927–1991), who defected from Labour to the SDP in 1981. It is now held by Clement Attlee's grandson [[John Richard Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee]]. The third earl (a member of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]]) retained his seat in the Lords as one of the [[hereditary peer]]s to remain under an amendment to Labour's [[House of Lords Act 1999]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Hereditary Peers in the House of Lords Since 1999|url=http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/LLN-2014-014/LLN-2014-014.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150609014726/http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/LLN-2014-014/LLN-2014-014.pdf |archive-date=9 June 2015 |url-status=live|access-date=29 May 2021|website=researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk}}</ref>

Attlee's estate was sworn for probate purposes at a value of £7,295,<ref>"Attlee the rt hon Clement Richard of 1 Kings Bench Walk Temple London EC4 died 8 October 1967 Probate London 4 January £7295" in Probate Index for 1968 at probatesearch.service.gov.uk, accessed 7 August 2016</ref> (equivalent to £{{formatnum:{{Inflation|UK|7295|1967|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation-year|UK}}{{Inflation-fn|UK|df=y}}) a relatively modest sum for so prominent a figure, and only a fraction of the £75,394 in his father's estate when he died in 1908.<ref name=probate>"Attlee Henry of 10 Billiter-square London and Westcott Portinscull-road Putney Surrey died 19 November 1908" in Probate Index for 1908 at probatesearch.service.gov.uk, accessed 7 August 2016</ref>