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    Lord Randolph Churchill

    British politician, father of Winston Churchill

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  2. As the younger son of a Marquess, Randolph had a courtesy title as Lord Randolph Churchill; as a commoner, he could sit in the House of Commons. Churchill attended Tabor's Preparatory School, Cheam , then from 1863 Eton College , where he remained until 1865. [4]

  3. Apr 19, 2024 · Lord Randolph Churchill (1849–95) was a precociously influential figure in the Conservative Party and the father of Winston Churchill, Britain’s prime minister during World War II.

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  4. Jun 17, 2020 · Lord Randolph encouraged Churchill to embrace his determination and pursue greater excellence: “when you go into the army I wish you to make your one aim the ambition of rising in that profession by showing to your officers superior military knowledge, skill & instinct.”

  5. Major Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Churchill [a] MBE (28 May 1911 – 6 June 1968) was an English journalist, writer and politician. The only son of future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, Randolph was brought up to regard himself as his father's political heir, although their relations became strained in ...

  6. May 24, 2024 · Randolph Churchill was an English author, journalist, and politician, the only son of British prime minister Winston Churchill. Churchill was a popular journalist in the 1930s and thrice failed to enter Parliament before becoming Conservative member for Preston (1940–45).

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  7. Dec 3, 2015 · Lord Randolph Churchill died in January 1895 at the age of forty-five. His son Winston Churchill claimed thirty-five years later in his autobiographical volume My Early Life that Lord Randolph had died “at the moment when his new fortune almost exactly equaled his debts.” 1 Ever since historians have usually accepted this verdict. 2

  8. Lord Randolph Churchill, (born Feb. 13, 1849, Blenheim Palace, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Eng.—died Jan. 24, 1895, London), British politician. Third son of the 7th duke of Marlborough, he entered the House of Commons in 1874.

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