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Major John Strange Spencer-Churchill DSO TD (4 February 1880 – 23 February 1947), known as Jack Churchill, [a] was the younger son of Lord Randolph Churchill and his wife Jennie, and the brother of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Sir Winston Churchill.
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 ...
[18] Rumours also circulated about the parentage of Winston's younger brother John, as Lady Randolph's sisters initially believed that the biological father of the second son, John (1880–1947) was Evelyn Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth, [20] although that was mostly discredited due to the boys' striking likeness to Randolph Churchill and to ...
Winston's brother, Jack, was born there in 1880. [7] For much of the 1880s, Randolph and Jennie were effectively estranged, [8] and the brothers cared for by their nanny, Elizabeth Everest. [9] When she died in 1895, Churchill wrote "she had been my dearest and most intimate friend during the whole of the twenty years I had lived". [10]
Immediately family of Winston Churchill including: parents, wife, children, grandchildren, siblings, nieces and nephews, and maternal family (i.e. not members of the extended Spencer-Churchill family).
In 1871 Churchill and his elder brother George were initiated into the rites of Freemasonry, as later his son Winston would be. [ 9 ] At the general election of 1874 Churchill was elected to Parliament as Conservative member for Woodstock , near the family seat of Blenheim Palace , defeating George Brodrick , a Fellow of Merton.
John Spencer-Churchill was appointed Viceroy of Ireland from 11 December 1876, with Randolph as his private secretary, resulting in the Churchill family's relocation to Dublin until May 1880. [1] [22] It was here that Winston's brother Jack was born on 4 February 1880. [23] [7] [24] Winston's relationship with Jack was always warm. [7]
He was the eldest son of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (1822–1883), who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Lord President of the Council, and Lady Frances Anne Emily Vane (1822–1899). He was the elder brother of Lord Randolph Churchill and the uncle of Winston Churchill.