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Lady Randolph Churchill. Jeanette Spencer-Churchill [1] CI RRC DStJ ( née Jerome; 9 January 1854 – 29 June 1921), known as Lady Randolph Spencer-Churchill, [a] was an American-born British socialite, the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill, and the mother of British prime minister Winston Churchill .
- 29 June 1921 (aged 67), London, England
- St Martin's Church, Bladon
- 9 January 1854, Brooklyn, U.S.
Lady Randolph Churchill Facts. 1. She Was An Heiress. Lady Randolph Churchill might have married into wealth and power, but she didn’t start out too shabby herself. Born Jennie Jerome in 1854, her father was an influential financier, and her mother came from landowning stock, a big deal those days.
Jennie Jerome Churchill (born January 9, 1854, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died June 29, 1921, London, England) American-born society figure, remembered chiefly as the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and mother of Sir Winston Churchill, prime minister of Great Britain (1940–45, 1951–55). Jeanette Jerome was the daughter of a prosperous ...
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Apr 15, 2019 · Endnotes. 1 Born Jennie Jerome in Brooklyn, 9 January 1854, she became known as Lady Randolph Churchill on marriage in 1874; then as Mrs. George Cornwallis-West on remarriage in 1900; and finally once again as Lady Randolph Churchill on the dissolution of her second marriage in 1914.
Oct 14, 2008 · Such were Lady Randolph Churchill’s thoughts on women’s influence in politics. The story of Jennie’s support to her husband, Lord Randolph Churchill, one of the most brilliant politicians of the late Victorian age, and to her son Winston Churchill, the greatest British statesman of the twentieth century, is significant and worth telling.
Apr 3, 2017 · Married at twenty, widowed by forty, Jennie now had to think to the future. And so, five years after Randolph’s death, she remarried. Although her marriage to the young and handsome George Cornwallis-West was a partnership which only increased her worries about money, arguably her precarious financial situation also fired a deep creative spark as she refused to give up on style, moved to an ...
May 18, 2018 · They could have no way of knowing that Jerome, who became Lady Randolph Churchill when she married in 1874, would be the mother of a future prime minister, Winston—or that by allowing their ...
