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The family of Winston Churchill, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is a prominent family in the United Kingdom and the United States. Churchill is the eldest son of Lord Randolph Churchill , the son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough , and Jeanette Jerome , an American socialite and the 5th great-granddaughter of Robert Coe , an early ...
By this marriage, she was properly known as Lady Randolph Churchill and would have been addressed in conversation as Lady Randolph. Lady Randolph with her two sons, John and Winston, 1889. The Churchills had two sons: Winston (1874–1965), and John (1880–1947). Winston, the future prime minister, was born less than eight months after the ...
Blenheim Palace, Churchill's ancestral home and birthplace. On his father's side, Winston Churchill was a direct descendant of the Dukes of Marlborough, nominally among the higher members of the British aristocracy. [1] [2] The family's ancestral home is Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, where Churchill was born on Monday, 30 November 1874. [2]
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.
Leonard Walter Jerome (November 3, 1817 – March 3, 1891) [1] was an American financier in Brooklyn, New York, and the maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill. Early life [ edit ]
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. Antonia Keaney, a social historian at Blenheim, said the former prime minister's connection to the ...
Marlborough: His Life and Times is a panegyric biography written by Winston Churchill about John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Churchill was a lineal descendant of the duke. [1] [2] The book comprises four volumes, the first of which appeared in October 1933 (557 pages, 200,000 words) with subsequent volumes in 1934, 1936 and 1938.
Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, died on 24 January 1965, aged 90. [1] [2] [3] His was the first state funeral in the United Kingdom for a non-member of the royal family since Edward Carson's in 1935.