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- Salisbury accepted his resignation and Randolph was out of frontline politics, never (unlike Winston) to return. He died young, aged 45, of a debilitating illness that may have been syphilis.
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Dec 30, 2021 · December 30, 2021. By Andrew W. Ellis. Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill, father of Sir Winston Churchill and a major political figure in his own right, died at home in Grosvenor Square, London, on Thursday 24 January 1895. He was forty-five years old and had been unwell for some time.
Robson Roose, who was the Churchills' family doctor in the 1880s, had written on syphilis as a root cause of debilitating disease, and subsequently diagnosed Randolph as suffering from it. He referred Randolph to the specialist Thomas Buzzard , but continued to prescribe potassium iodide and mercury.
May 7, 2015 · The death of Lord Randolph Churchill at age 45 cast a pall over his early fame, and the notion that the cause was syphilis is one of the most enduring myths of the Churchill saga. In fact, his main symptoms are more consistent with a less titillating but far more logical diagnosis.
Jan 19, 2011 · Lord Randolph Churchill dies in his Mayfair home after a long, public battle with the unmentionable disease, syphilis. The story varies. One version has it that Churchill contracted the disease while at Oxford: he awoke, after a night of revelry, in bed with an old whore with "one long yellow tooth in her top jaw that waggled as she spoke."
He died young, aged 45, of a debilitating illness that may have been syphilis. Jennie Churchill with her sons, Jack (left) and Winston (right), in 1889. Randolph and Jennie were effectively estranged for long periods and there was some speculation that her second son, Jack (1880–1947), was not Randolph's.
Sep 12, 2017 · It has often been claimed that he died of syphilis, but Dr. John Mather, a historian of medicine, argues persuasively that Randolph’s symptoms could well have been caused by a brain tumour. 6 Nor, despite gossip and speculation, do we know anything for certain of Randolph’s private life outside his marriage.
Apr 10, 2012 · The Lees also debunk rumours that Winston was conceived out of wedlock, that Jack was sired by another man, and that Lord Randolph died of syphilis. They claim a fall from a horse which left...