Editing Harold Wilson (section)

===Death===
[[File:Harold Wilson's grave St Mary's, Old Town - geograph org uk - 934336 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Wilson's grave in [[St Mary's, Isles of Scilly]]]]

Wilson continued regularly attending the House of Lords until just over a year before his death; the last sitting he attended was on 27 April 1994. He had a picture taken with other Labour Lords on 15 June 1994, just under a year before his death.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/various-personalities-1171067ag|title=Labour Lords including Denis Healy James Callaghan Editorial Stock Photo – Stock Image &#124; Shutterstock|access-date=4 June 2021|archive-date=4 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210604141445/https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/various-personalities-1171067ag|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>''LJ'' [1994] 342.</ref> He died from [[colon cancer]] and [[Alzheimer's disease]] on 23 May 1995, aged 79.{{efn|name = Death}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a29213646/prime-minister-harold-wilson-facts/|title=Harold Wilson Did Have a Top Secret MI File|first=Lauren|last=Hubbard|date=17 November 2019|website=Town & Country|access-date=29 January 2022}}</ref>

Many in the House of Commons made tributes. Prime Minister [[John Major]] called him a "formidable political opponent" and ended his speech with the following words: "What was Harold Wilson really like? I have formed my judgment. He was a complex man, certainly, a clever man, a sensitive man, a man who could be bruised and hurt and who never wore the armadillo skin of the fictional politician. He was a man of many achievements and, perhaps above all, a very human man who served his country well and honourably and who has earned, by that, a secure place in its history. In the ledger of life, his credit balance is very high. It is a privilege for me, as one, nominally, of his political opponents, to pay him this tribute and I do so unreservedly." <ref>{{citation |work=[[Hansard]] – Commons |volume=260 |date=24 May 1995 |title=Lord Wilson (Tributes) |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1995-05-24/debates/af24ef16-bbaa-4d6e-8826-16e076d90d48/LordWilson(Tributes) }}</ref>

Wilson's memorial service was held in [[Westminster Abbey]] on 13 July 1995. It was attended by [[Charles, Prince of Wales]], former prime ministers [[Edward Heath]], [[James Callaghan]], and [[Margaret Thatcher]], incumbent Prime Minister [[John Major]] and [[Tony Blair]], then Leader of the Opposition and later prime minister. Wilson was buried at [[St Mary's Old Church, St Mary's|St Mary's Old Church]], [[St Mary's, Isles of Scilly]], on 6 June.<ref name=autogenerated1/> His epitaph is ''{{Lang|la|Tempus Imperator Rerum}}'' (''Time the Commander of Things'').<ref name="ScillyJack">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/27/scilly-harold-wilson-prime-minister|title=Scilly, where Harold Wilson, the first PM to show his knees, found peace|last=Jack|first=Ian|author-link = Ian Jack|date=27 May 2016|work=The Guardian|access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref>