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

    Sep 25, 2018 · Lord Randolph Churchill. His son’s name? Sir Winston Churchill. Origins. For many years it was thought that the story originated in Worship Programs for Juniors, by Alice A. Bays and Elizabeth Jones Oakbery (1950). In a chapter entitled “The Power of Kindness,” Churchill is saved from drowning in a Scottish lake by Alexander Fleming himself.

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

    Aug 9, 1999 · The man's name was Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston Churchill's father. So, Alexander Fleming's father saved a young Winston Churchill from drowning in a bog. Or young Alexander Fleming himself ...

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

    Aug 29, 2008 · See Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran (Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1966), p. 335.” Official biographer Sir Martin Gilbert adds that the ages of Churchill and Fleming (or Fleming’s father) do not support the various accounts circulated; Alexander Fleming was seven years younger than Churchill. If he was plowing a field at say age ...

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    Jan 11, 2020 · 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. Alexan­der Flem­ing ...

  7. www.beliefnet.com › the-power-of-a-good-deedAmazing coincidence? How the lives of Alexander Fleming and ...

    The Power of a Good Deed ... Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill. ... Winston Churchill and Alexander Fleming were contemporaries, and their paths did cross. According ...

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  9. winstonchurchill.org › personal-lifePersonal Life - International Churchill Society

    Aug 30, 2021 · There is no record of Churchill nearly drowning in Scotland at that or any other age; or of Lord Randolph paying for Alexander Fleming’s education. Sir Martin also notes that Lord Moran’s diaries, while mentioning “M&B,” say nothing about penicillin, or the need to fly it out to Churchill in the Near East. Q.

  10. professorbuzzkill.com › 2022/01/17 › winstonWinston Churchill, Alexander Fleming, and Penicillin

    Jan 17, 2022 · Winston wrote a biography of Lord Randolph, and Winston’s son, named Randolph after his grandfather, wrote two volumes of biography about Winston Churchill. If any family story with such wonderful “what-goes-around-comes-around elements” as the “Alexander Fleming Saved Churchill’s Life” story were genuine, it would have been ...