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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 ...
- Winston's Parents
- Winston's Nanny
- Education
Prominent Parents
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's ancestors were both British and American. Winston's father was the British Lord Randolph Churchill, the youngest son of John, the 7th Duke of Marlborough. Lord Randolph's ancestor John Churchill made history by winning many successful military campaigns in Europe for Queen Anne almost 200 years earlier. His mother was the American Jennie Jerome. The Jeromes fought for the independence of the American colonies in George Washington's armies. Winston's father...
Double, Double Toil and Trouble
In 1895, within six months, first Winston's father, then Mrs. Everest, died. Winston now faced the world without his idolized father and without his primary emotional support and mother figure. Winston's father had been in declining health and increasing dementia for several years. But, his erratic behavior and his dissatisfaction with Winston remained robust. Winston was not told the diagnosis - thought to be syphilis - and for many years believed that he too would die young. "Is it forty an...
Lady Randolph hired Mrs. Elizabeth Everest as a nanny to care for Winston. Winston fondly called Mrs. Everest "Woomany." Later Winston Churchill would say that "My nurse was my confidante. Mrs. Everest it was who looked after me and tended all my wants. It was to her that I poured out all my many troubles..."
School Struggles
"I was no more consulted about leaving home than I had been about coming into the world." Boarding school was the routine for boys of Winston's class, and he was packed off in 1881 at age seven. He hated every minute of it. His first school, St. George's, was brutal - "Flogging with the birch... was a great feature in its curriculum." Of school Winston would write, "It appears that I was to go away from home for many weeks at a stretch in order to do lessons under masters... After all I was o...
An Officer and a Gentleman
"For years I thought my father, with his experience and flair, had discerned in me the qualities of military genius. But I was told later that he had only come to the conclusion that I was not clever enough to go to the Bar." For young gentlemen of Winston's social class only certain professions were considered suitable. The university was the gatekeeper to all but the military, and Winston's poor performance at school closed the university's doors to him. Winston's lack of attention to studi...
Winston Churchill. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of ...
Mar 25, 2017 · March 25, 2017. Churchill’s relationship with his parents was difficult. They were remote and inaccessible, often preoccupied – his beautiful heiress mother, with her social life and her numerous affairs with young men, and his father, with his politics. Churchill doted on his mother and idolised his father and as a child was constantly ...
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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. Winston’s childhood was not a particularly happy one. Like many Victorian parents, Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill were distant.
As was the prevailing custom in upper-class British circles, Winston and Jack were entrusted to the care of a nanny and were sent to a succession of boarding schools. Churchill's parents were occupied with high society and did not spend a great deal of time with their sons. Young Winston was sometimes rebellious and often in trouble.
Apr 10, 2012 · Winston Churchill's mother had a two-year sexual liaison with King Edward VII, the Queen's great-grandfather, according to a new book. Lady Randolph also swindled the wartime Prime Minister and ...
