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Jennie Jerome Churchill (born January 9, 1854, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died June 29, 1921, London, England) was an American-born society figure, remembered chiefly as the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and mother of Sir Winston Churchill, prime minister of Great Britain (1940–45, 1951–55). Jeanette Jerome was the daughter of a ...
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (n. 30 noiembrie 1874, Palatul Blenheim, Anglia, Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei – d. 24 ianuarie 1965, Greater London, Anglia, Regatul Unit) a fost un om politic britanic, prim-ministru al Regatului Unit în Al Doilea Război Mondial.
Winston Churchill. The Roaring Lion, a portrait by Yousuf Karsh at the Canadian Parliament, 30 December 1941. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill KG OM CH TD FRS PC (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was an English politician. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, once during World War II, and again in the early 1950s.
Nov 30, 2011 · Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire on St Andrew’s Day, 30 November 1874. On his father’s side, he was a child of the aristocracy; his father was the Conservative politician, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill.
Winston Churchill was born into the privileged world of the British aristocracy on November 30, 1874. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a younger son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough. His mother, Jennie Jerome, was the daughter of an American business tycoon, Leonard Jerome.
Martin Gilbert, appointed official biographer after Randolph’s death in 1968, now begins an almost day by day chronology of Churchill’s life, concentrating on the first perilous years of World War I. We begin with Churchill leading the Admiralty in early battles with the German fleet, moving to the epic failure of the Dardanelles and ...
Feb 19, 2021 · 7. Winston Churchill was an honorary American. Churchill was actually half-American by birth, as his mother was born in Brooklyn, New York. Former President John F. Kennedy granted him honorary ...
