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    • Charming but Fanciful: The Fleming-Churchill Myth
      • In a chapter entitled “The Power of Kindness,” Churchill is saved from drowning in a Scottish lake by Alexander Fleming himself. A few years later Churchill telephones Alex to say that his parents, in gratitude, will sponsor Alex’s medical school education.
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      Charming but Fanciful: The Fleming-Churchill Myth

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  3. winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu › alexander-Charming but Fanciful: The Fleming-Churchill Myth

    Sep 25, 2018 · By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT. | September 25, 2018. Fleming and Churchill (Karsh, 1941) The story that Alexander Fleming (or Alex and his father Hugh) twice saved Churchill’s life, charming as it may be, is certainly fiction. This persistent Churchill legend dates back to World War II.

  4. www.snopes.com › fact-check › what-goes-aroundDid Alexander Fleming's Father Save Winston Churchill from ...

    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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  6. winstonchurchill.org › resources › mythsSir Alexander Fleming Twice Saved Churchill's Life

    Aug 29, 2008 · The myth of Fleming saving Churchill’s life. Winston Churchill at Harrow, © Churchill Archives, Broadwater Collection. The Churchill-Fleming Non-Connection: The story that Sir Alexander Fleming or his father (the renditions vary) saved Churchill’s life has roared around the Internet for years. Charming as it is, it is certainly fiction.

  7. richardlangworth.com › flemingUrban Myths: "Alexander Fleming Twice Saved Churchill's Life"

    Jan 11, 2020 · “Saved from drowning” The first part of the sto­ry often adds that in grat­i­tude for Alex’s sav­ing Winston’s life, Lord Ran­dolph Chrchill paid for his educ­tion. It is all imag­i­nary. Offi­cial biog­ra­ph­er Sir Mar­tin Gilbert notes that the ages of Churchill and Flem­ing (or Fleming’s father) do not sup­port the idea.

  8. www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org › cmss_filesThe Churchillian

    dance?‚’ and ‘Did Alexander Fleming save Churchill from drowning?’” Like it or not, the World Wide Web is where people go. And so much of it is so little checked that it sometimes warps what matters. Professor John Charmley, a famous Churchill critic who nevertheless admires him, wrote:

  9. www.truthorfiction.com › churchillWinston Churchill's life saved by a doctor whom Churchill's ...

    Mar 17, 2015 · The Truth: According to the Winston Churchill center in Washington, D.C., this is a myth. There is no evidence these events ever happened. Churchill’s official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert, says there’s no record of Churchill nearly drowning or of his father paying for Fleming’s education.

  10. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Alexander_FlemingAlexander Fleming - Wikipedia

    According to the biography, Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution by Kevin Brown, Alexander Fleming, in a letter to his friend and colleague Andre Gratia, described this as "A wondrous fable." Nor did he save Winston Churchill himself during World War II.

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