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Lord Randolph Churchill, (born Feb. 13, 1849, Blenheim Palace, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Eng.—died Jan. 24, 1895, London), British politician. Third son of the 7th duke of Marlborough, he entered the House of Commons in 1874.
Apr 18, 2024 · Randolph Churchill was an English author, journalist, and politician, the only son of British prime minister Winston Churchill. Churchill was a popular journalist in the 1930s and thrice failed to enter Parliament before becoming Conservative member for Preston (1940–45).
This article is about the son of Winston Churchill. For his grandfather, and Winston Churchill's father, see Lord Randolph Churchill. Major Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Churchill [a] MBE (28 May 1911 – 6 June 1968) was an English journalist, writer and politician.
Dec 3, 2015 · By David Lough. Lord Randolph Churchill died in January 1895 at the age of forty-five. His son Winston Churchill claimed thirty-five years later in his autobiographical volume My Early Life that Lord Randolph had died “at the moment when his new fortune almost exactly equaled his debts.” 1 Ever since historians have usually accepted this ...
May 23, 2018 · Churchill, Lord Randolph (1849–95). An MP from 1874, Churchill was secretary to his father, the 7th duke of Marlborough, then lord-lieutenant of Ireland. After the Conservative defeat of 1880 he led a small ginger group known as the Fourth Party undermining the party leadership of Northcote.
Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill was a British aristocrat and politician. Churchill was a Tory radical and coined the term 'Tory democracy'. He participated in the creation of the National Union of the Conservative Party.
The transitory nature of political fame has seldom been more clearly exemplified than in the life of Lord Randolph Churchill, a man who dominated the political sphere in the 1880s, whose fight today, nevertheless, is but dimly apparent beside the brilliance of Disraeli, Gladstone, Parnell and Chamberlain.
