Winston Churchill
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- Birth
- Im so excited to bring our baby boy home
- thats a big house
- Parents
- Where are you guys going
- we are off to work again today
- Early life
- Im out of here!!
- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, in full Winston Churchill. He was born on 30 November 1874, in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, and was of rich, aristocratic ancestry. He was the oldest of two boys, and was very close to his brother Jack and adored both of his parents. Winston's brother, Jack, was born there in 1880.
- History
- VICTORY!!!!
- Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's ancestors were both British and American. Winston's father was the British Lord Randolph Churchill, the youngest son of John, the 7th Duke of Marlborough. His mother was the American Jennie Jerome was the daughter of an American entrepreneur. Their career and did not let them spend a great deal of time with their sons.
- Ideologies/beliefs
- I believe in the power of rights for each individual
- He grew up in a classically Victorian fashion so was mostly away at boarding school during his childhood. Blenheim Palace was always one of Churchill’s favorite places. He spent much of his time as a child there. Young Winston was sometimes rebellious and often in trouble. On leaving school at the age of eighteen, he joined the British cavalry. They were sent to a succession of boarding schools. Churchill's parents were occupied with high society.
- Circumstances of Death
- Im sorry ma'am but your husband died this morning of a sever stroke
- Winston Churchill was an inspirational statesman, writer, orator and leader who led Britain to victory in the Second World War. He served as Conservative Prime Minister twice - from 1940 to 1945, before being defeated in the 1945 general election by the Labour leader Clement Attlee. Poor health forced him to resign in 1955. Churchill died in 1965 and was honored with a state funeral.
- Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party and its leader from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Churchill was wary of socialist tendencies toward state planning and bureaucracy because he consistently believed in both the liberty of the individual and of free markets.
- Churchill died on January 24, 1965, at age 90, in his London home nine days after suffering a severe stroke. Britain mourned for more than a week. Churchill had shown signs of fragile health as early as 1941 when he suffered a heart attack while visiting the White House. He died exactly 70 years after the death of his father.
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