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   Did Alexander Fleming save Churchill?

   • Fleming and Churchill (Karsh, 1941) 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.

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   Did Alexander Fleming save a young Winston Churchill from drowning?

   • 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 Alexander Fleming himself saved a young Winston Churchill from drowning in a swimming hole.

   Did Alexander Fleming's Father Save Winston Churchill from Drowning

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   Was Alexander Fleming younger than Winston Churchill?

   • Alexander Fleming was seven years younger than Churchill. If he was plowing a field at say age 13, Churchill would have been 20. There is no record of Churchill nearly drowning in Scotland at that or any other age. Nor is there record of Lord Randolph paying for Alexander’s education.

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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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   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.

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   Aug 9, 1999 · The father of Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, saved a young Winston Churchill from drowning; in gratitude Churchill's father paid for Fleming's education.

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   Aug 29, 2008 · Alex graduates with honors and in 1928 discovers that certain bacteria cannot grow in certain vegetable molds. In 1943 when Churchill becomes ill in the Near East, Alex’s invention, penicillin, is flown out to effect his cure. Thus once again Alexander Fleming saves the life of Winston Churchill.

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   Jan 11, 2020 · 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.

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   Sep 10, 2018 · The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College > Articles > Truths and Heresies > Churchill's Youth > Charming but Fanciful: The Fleming-Churchill Myth > Fleming and Churchill (Karsh, 1941)

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   Aug 30, 2021 · Alex graduates with honours and in 1928 discovers that certain bacteria cannot grow in certain vegetable molds. In 1943 when Churchill becomes ill in the Near East, Alex’s invention, penicillin, is flown out to effect his cure. Thus once again Alexander Fleming saves the life of Winston Churchill.

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   Mar 17, 2015 · The Truth: According to the Winston Churchill center in Washington, D.C., this is a myth. There is no evidence these events ever happened. Churchill’s official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert, says there’s no record of Churchill nearly drowning or of his father paying for Fleming’s education.