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1. winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu › alexander-Charming but Fanciful: The Fleming-Churchill Myth

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   Sep 25, 2018 · The story that Alexander Fleming (or Alex and his father Hugh) twice saved Churchill’s life, charming as it may be, is certainly fiction. This persistent Churchill legend dates back to World War II. It is still found today on otherwise serious websites, despite abundant evidence against it.

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3. www.snopes.com › fact-check › what-goes-aroundDid Alexander Fleming's Father Save Winston Churchill from ...

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   Aug 9, 1999 · The father of Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, saved a young Winston Churchill from drowning; in gratitude Churchill's father paid for Fleming's education.

4. winstonchurchill.org › resources › mythsSir Alexander Fleming Twice Saved Churchill’s Life

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   Aug 29, 2008 · According to Keeney, Churchill is saved from drowning in a Scottish lake by a farm boy named Alex. A few years later Churchill telephones Alex to say that his parents, in gratitude, will sponsor Alex’s otherwise unaffordable medical school education.

5. richardlangworth.com › flemingUrban Myths: "Alexander Fleming Twice Saved Churchill's Life"

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   Jan 11, 2020 · Alexander Fleming, Ken HIrsch, Lord Randolph Churchill, Martin Gilbert, penicillin, Winston S. Churchill. It is not true that Alexander Fleming saved Churchill twice: from drowning as a boy, and, with penicillin, from pneumonia in 1943.

6. winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu › alexander-flemingFleming and Churchill (Karsh, 1941) - Hillsdale College

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   Sep 10, 2018 · The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College > Articles > Truths and Heresies > Churchill's Youth > Charming but Fanciful: The Fleming-Churchill Myth > Fleming and Churchill (Karsh, 1941)

7. www.historynet.com › penicillin-wonder-drug-worldPenicillin: Wonder Drug of World War II - HistoryNet

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   Jul 3, 2017 · That son, Alexander Fleming, had in turn discovered the penicillin that supposedly saved Churchill’s life. But the “wondrous fable,” as Fleming himself referred to the ironic sequence of events, had fundamental fact-checking issues: Churchill had experienced no near drowning in his youth.

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   How did Alexander Fleming save Winston Churchill?

   • This boy would later save Winston Churchill's life with penicillin when Churchill lay dying in a hospital during World War II's most critical hour. The man's name was Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston Churchill's father. So, Alexander Fleming's father saved a young Winston Churchill from drowning in a bog.

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   Did Alexander Fleming discover the penicillin that saved Churchill's life?

   • That son, Alexander Fleming, had in turn discovered the penicillin that supposedly saved Churchill’s life. But the “wondrous fable,” as Fleming himself referred to the ironic sequence of events, had fundamental fact-checking issues: Churchill had experienced no near drowning in his youth. The Churchills and Flemings were not acquainted.

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   Did Churchill deny Alexander Fleming?

   • According to the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge, Churchill publicly denied the Fleming story in 1946. This bit of netsam aside, Alexander Fleming's life has already been the subject of considerable mythologizing.

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   Was Alexander Fleming consulted when Churchill was diagnosed with pneumonia?

   • In short, Alexander Fleming was neither present nor consulted when Churchill was diagnosed with pneumonia, nor was penicillin used to treat the British prime minister. According to the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge, Churchill publicly denied the Fleming story in 1946.

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9. lifeissues.org › 1999 › 04Alexander Fleming and Winston Churchill - Life Issues Institute

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   Apr 1, 1999 · As it turned out, he became a very important physician, for right in the middle of World War II, this man discovered penicillin. His name was Alexander Fleming. Then, in the last year of the war, in 1945, Dr. Fleming suddenly received an urgent request from the British High Command.