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     • Alexander Fleming (or his father) did not save Churchill's life twice, or even once.
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   Did Alexander Fleming save Winston Churchill twice?

   • 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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   Did Churchill's father pay for Fleming's education?

   • The popular story of Winston Churchill's father's paying for Fleming's education after Fleming's father saved young Winston from death is false.

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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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   Was Hugh Fleming able to save a drowning Churchill?

   • Hugh Fleming (1816-1888) was certainly able to save a drowning Churchill up to about age 14 (WSC was born in 1874). But there is no record of Churchill nearly drowning in Scotland at that or any other age. Nor, concluded Sir Martin, is there record of Lord Randolph paying for Alexander’s education.

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   Sep 25, 2018 · Alexander Fleming (or his father) did not save Churchill's life twice, or even once. Tracking the origins of a persistent Churchillian myth.

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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. Rating: False

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   Aug 29, 2008 · According to Keeney, Churchill is saved from drowning in a Scottish lake by a farm boy named Alex. A few years later Churchill telephones Alex to say that his parents, in gratitude, will sponsor Alex’s otherwise unaffordable medical school education.

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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 6, 2023 · Nor did he save Winston Churchill himself during World War II. Churchill was saved by Lord Moran, using sulphonamides, since he had no experience with penicillin, when Churchill fell ill in Carthage in Tunisia in 1943.

   • Place Of Birth: Scotland
   • Birth Date: August 6, 1881

   • Place of Burial: London, Greater London, UK
   • Death Date: March 11, 1955

9. www.historyonthenet.com › churchill-family-treeChurchill Family Tree: From Winston to the Duke of Marlborough

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   Winston Churchill was the grandson of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough. He was Member of Parliament for Woodstock from 1844 to 1845 and again from 1847 to 1857, when he succeeded his father in the dukedom and entered the House of Lords. Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer-Churchill was the son of Sir Winston Churchill and his wife ...

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    Nor did he save Winston Churchill himself during World War II. Churchill was saved by Lord Moran , using sulphonamides , since he had no experience with penicillin, when Churchill fell ill in Carthage in Tunisia in 1943.