Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The final documents, titled State Funeral of the Late Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, K.G., O.M., C.H., were issued on 26 January 1965, two days after Churchill's death. The documents dictated the entire course of the funeral down to the minutest detail.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (during the Second World War) and again from 1951 to 1955.
After Sir Winston's death, on 17 May 1965, she was created a life peer as Baroness Spencer-Churchill, of Chartwell in the County of Kent. [20] She sat as a cross-bencher, but her growing deafness precluded her taking a regular part in parliamentary life. Clementine and Winston Churchill's grave at St Martin's Church, Bladon
In 1886 he risked a tactical resignation as Chancellor to try to secure his position on armed forces expenditure, but the Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, accepted his resignation and replaced him, effectively ending Churchill's career. His elder son was Winston Churchill, who wrote a biography of him in 1906. [3]
Winston Spencer Churchill [1] (10 October 1940 – 2 March 2010), generally known as Winston Churchill, [nb 1] was an English Conservative politician and a grandson of British prime minister Winston Churchill.
Sir Nicholas Soames said his grandfather had been ‘a great comfort’ to the Queen on her accession in 1952.
Operation Hope Not was the code name of the plan for the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. It was titled The State Funeral of The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, K.G., O.M., C.H., and was begun in 1953, twelve years before his death. [1] The detailed plan was prepared in 1958.
Winston Churchill: Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second—if there is one. ... It's believed that the Mongol Conquests were responsible for the death of over 5% of the world's ...