Violet Attlee (1895–1965), by Bassano Ltd, 1946
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Violet Attlee (1895–1965), by Bassano Ltd, 1946
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Attlee [née Millar], Violet Helen, Countess Attlee (1895–1965), charity fund-raiser and prime minister’s wife, was born at Heathdown, East Heath Road, Hampstead, on 20 November 1895, the youngest of eleven children of Henry Edward Millar (1856–1912), a commission merchant in import/export trade, and his wife, ...