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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.

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

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   Aug 9, 1999 · 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. Or young...

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   Did Alexander Fleming save Winston Churchill from drowning?

   • There is no evidence that Alexander Fleming's father saved Lord Randolph Churchill from drowning, nor that Lord Randolph paid for Alexander's medical education. Nevertheless, Winston Churchill and Alexander Fleming were contemporaries, and their paths did cross.

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   Who was Lord Randolph Churchill?

   • "Nothing," said the young man. "I consider a privilege to help." The man paid for the little boy's medical school training. 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.

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   Who is Lord Randolph Churchill's son?

   • Lord Randolph Churchill. His son’s name? Sir Winston Churchill. For many years it was thought that the story originated in Worship Programs for Juniors, by Alice A. Bays and Elizabeth Jones Oakbery (1950). In a chapter entitled “The Power of Kindness,” Churchill is saved from drowning in a Scottish lake by Alexander Fleming himself.

   Charming but Fanciful: The Fleming-Churchill Myth - Hillsdale College

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

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   Aug 29, 2008 · There is no record of Churchill nearly drowning in Scotland at that or any other age; or of Lord Randolph paying for Alexander Fleming’s education. Sir Martin also notes that Lord Moran’s diaries, while mentioning “M&B,” say nothing about penicillin, or the need to fly it out to Churchill in the Near East.

5. www.beliefnet.com › the-power-of-a-good-deedAmazing coincidence? How the lives of Alexander Fleming and ...

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   There is no evidence that Alexander Fleming's father saved Lord Randolph Churchill from drowning, nor that Lord Randolph paid for Alexander's medical education. Nevertheless,...

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

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   Jan 11, 2020 · Fake Quotes, FAQs, Research Topics. 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.

8. winstonchurchill.org › personal-lifePersonal Life - International Churchill Society

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   Aug 30, 2021 · Also, Churchill did consult with Sir Alexander Fleming on 27 June 1946 about a staphylococcal infection which had apparently resisted penicillin. See Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran (Boston: Houghton Muffin 1966), p. 335.”

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10. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Alexander_FlemingAlexander Fleming - Wikipedia

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    Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS [1] (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin. His discovery in 1928 of what was later named benzylpenicillin (or penicillin G) from the mould Penicillium rubens ...