John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, KG, PC (2 June 1822 – 4 July 1883), styled Earl of Sunderland from 1822 to 1840 and Marquess of Blandford from 1840 to 1857, was a British Conservative cabinet minister, politician, peer, and nobleman.
Apr 28, 2022 · "John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, KG, PC (2 June 1822 – 4 July 1883), styled Earl of Sunderland from 1822 to 1840 and Marquess of Blandford from 1840 to 1857, was a British statesman and nobleman. He was the paternal grandfather of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill."
- June 2, 1822
- July 4, 1883
- Finest Hour 187, First Quarter 2020
- A Member of Parliament
- The Seventh Duke of Marlborough
- Viceroy of Ireland
- Young Winston and His Grandfather
By Fred Glueckstein
Fred Glueckstein is a frequent contributor to Finest Hour and author of Churchill and Colonist II(2015). John Winston Spencer-Churchill was born on 2 June 1822 at Garboldisham Hall, Norfolk. He was the eldest son of George Spencer-Churchill, the sixth Duke of Marlborough, and Lady Jane Stewart, who was the daughter of the eighth Earl of Galloway. From his birth until the death of his grandfather—the fifth duke—in 1840, John held the family courtesy title Earl of Sunderland. This changed when...
Until he became the Duke of Marlborough in 1857, John was eligible to serve in the House of Commons. In 1840, he took his seat as the Conservative member for Woodstock in the parish of Blenheim, essentially the family “pocket borough.” As a result of supporting Free Trade measures without the agreement of his father, whose influence at Woodstock wa...
The sixth duke died on 1 July 1857, and John thus became the seventh Duke of Marlborough. He left the Commons for good and entered the House of Lords. He was later described by a biographer as “a sensible, honourable, and industrious public man.”1 Lord Randolph’s wife Jennie Jerome, Winston’s mother, remembered her father-in-law in her memoirs: “He...
When Benjamin Disraeli became Prime Minister in 1874, Marlborough was offered but declined the position of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Two years later, however, he accepted the same position when the cunning Prime Minister saw it as an expedient to defusing a potential crisis. The Duke’s son Lord Randolph had foolishly threatened the Prince of Wale...
In Dublin, the Duke and Duchess lived at Viceregal Lodge in Phoenix Park. Lord Randolph with his wife Jennie and young son Winston lived nearby in the Little Lodge. The Churchill family grew when Winston’s brother John Strange Spencer-Churchill was born at Phoenix Park on 4 February 1880. In his autobiography My Early Life, Winston Churchill wrote ...
John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, KG, PC (2 June 1822 – 4 July 1883), styled Earl of Sunderland from 1822 to 1840 and Marquess of Blandford from 1840 to 1857, was a British Conservative cabinet minister, politician, peer, and nobleman. He was the paternal grandfather of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, KG, PC (2 June 1822 – 4 July 1883), styled Earl of Sunderland from 1822 to 1840 and Marquess of Blandford from 1840 to 1857, was a British statesman and nobleman. He was the paternal grandfather of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, JP, DL (13 April 1926 – 16 October 2014) was a British peer. He was the elder son of the 10th Duke of Marlborough and his wife, the Hon. Alexandra Mary Hilda Cadogan. He was known as "Sunny" after his courtesy title of Earl of Sunderland .
Quinn, James. Churchill, John Winston Spencer (1822–83), 7th duke of Marlborough and lord lieutenant of Ireland (1876–80), was born 2 June 1822 at Garboldisham Hall, Norfolk, eldest son of George Spencer Churchill (1793–1857), 6th duke, and his wife Lady Jane (1798–1844), daughter of George Stewart, 8th earl of Galloway.
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