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When Lady Anne Churchill was born on 27 February 1682, in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, her father, General John Churchill 1st Duke of Marlborough, was 31 and her mother, Sarah Jennings Duchess of Marlborough, was 21. She married Charles Spencer on 2 January 1699, in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
Residence. Blenheim Palace. 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 .
Spencer Churchill, whose profligate and impoverished father had succeeded as 5th duke of Marlborough in 1817 (when Spencer Churchill masqueraded as a clergyman to officiate at the mock marriage of his elder brother Lord Blandford to a young ingenue), was always short of money.2 Two contested elections in the space of four months in 1818 for St ...
The Roaring Lion, a portrait by Yousuf Karsh at the Canadian Parliament, 30 December 1941. Winston Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty on 3 September 1939, the day that the United Kingdom declared war on Nazi Germany. He succeeded Neville Chamberlain as prime minister on 10 May 1940 and held the post until 26 July 1945.
Viscountcy Churchill extinct, 2017: Charles James Spencer-Churchill b. 1955 12th Duke of Marlborough, Marquess of Blandford, Earl of Marlborough, Lord Churchill of Eyemouth, and Baron Churchill of Sandridge, 14th Earl of Sunderland, 16th Baron Spencer of Wormleighton: Michael Spencer b. 1960 7th Baron Churchill of Wychwood: David Anthony ...
Nov 13, 2023 · Charles Churchill (satirist) Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still. Charles Churchill (February 1731 – November 4, 1764) was an English poet and satirist.
May 21, 2023 · Winston Churchill was born in 1874 at his family’s ancestral home, Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, England. He was the eldest son of Lord Randolph Churchill and Lady Jennie Jerome. Even though Churchill saw himself as British, his mother was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1854 to a wealthy financier, Leonard Jerome.
