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Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, LG, DBE, FRSL was an English author. The youngest of the five children of Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, she worked for public organisations including the Red Cross and the Women's Voluntary Service from 1939 to 1941, and joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1941. She was the wife of Conservative politician Christopher Soames.
May 31, 2014 · Soames. Winston Churchill's last surviving daughter Lady Mary Soames passed away peacefully at her west London home yesterday evening surrounded by her family, after a short illness. She was 91. She was the youngest of the five children of the wartime prime minister and his wife Clementine.
Jun 7, 2014 · Remembering Mary Soames, Churchill's daughter and the grandest of grande dames. ... Their first three children were Diana, born in 1909, Randolph in 1911, and Sarah in 1914. In 1918, they had ...
Mar 2, 2016 · Mary Soames, the youngest daughter of Sir Winston Churchill. Mary was ‘the one sibling who grew up safe and sound’, says Geoffrey Wheatcroft. Photograph: L.g. Patterson/AP
Jul 24, 2015 · Mary’s family, of course, was there in force. Lessons were read by Sir Nicholas Soames, her eldest son, and by Sir John Major, the former prime minister. Here follows the Address given by William Shawcross, a close family friend: I sat next to Mary, when she was in her early 80s, at a charity dinner, which boasted a small fun fair.
Mary Spencer-Churchill was born on September 15, 1922, at ‘Chartwell,’ a country house in Westerham, Kent. She was the youngest of the five children of Winston Churchill and his wife, Baroness Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (née Hozier). Mary attended ‘Manor House School,’ Limpsfield, near ‘Chartwell,’ where she continued ...
Christopher Soames. Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames, GCMG, GCVO, CH, CBE, PC (12 October 1920 – 16 September 1987) was a British Conservative politician who served as a European Commissioner and the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia. He was previously Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford from 1950 to 1966.
