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3 days ago · Winston Churchill (born November 30, 1874, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England—died January 24, 1965, London) was a British statesman, orator, and author who as prime minister (1940–45, 1951–55) rallied the British people during World War II and led his country from the brink of defeat to victory. After a sensational rise to prominence ...
Quick Reference. (1849–95). An MP from 1874, after the Conservative defeat of 1880 he led a small ginger group known as the Fourth Party undermining the leadership of Northcote. Churchill exploited the discontents of the provincial associations in the National Union and claimed to speak for a ‘Tory Democracy’ derived from Disraeli.
Descendants of Winston Churchill. Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 10 May 1940 – 26 July 1945 and 26 October 1951 – 6 April 1955, was the eldest son of Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill, and grandson of the 7th Duke of Marlborough . In 1908, Churchill married Clementine Hozier, the daughter of Sir Henry and ...
Randolph Churchill Winston's father, Randolph Churchill, had a brilliant, if brief, career in British Parliamentary politics in the 1880s. He became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1886, at the age of thirty-seven, but soon resigned in the course of a party dispute.
Oct 27, 2009 · His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was descended from the First Duke of Marlborough and was himself a well-known figure in Tory politics in the 1870s and 1880s. ... Churchill’s speech was the ...
Oct 30, 2014 · Evidence suggests Randolph suffered behavioral ills. After World War II, Randolph Churchill, Winston’s only son, still believed his destiny was to become prime minister, and that the name ...
Winston Churchill was the grandson of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough. He was Member of Parliament for Woodstock from 1844 to 1845 and again from 1847 to 1857, when he succeeded his father in the dukedom and entered the House of Lords. Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer-Churchill was the son of Sir Winston Churchill and his wife ...
