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Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill [a] (13 February 1849 – 24 January 1895) was a British aristocrat and politician. [1] Churchill was a Tory radical and coined the term 'Tory democracy'. [2] He participated in the creation of the National Union of the Conservative Party.
Lord Randolph Churchill (born February 13, 1849, London, England—died January 24, 1895, London) was a British politician who was a precociously influential figure in the Conservative Party and the father of Winston Churchill.
Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill, father of Sir Winston Churchill and a major political figure in his own right, died at home in Grosvenor Square, London, on Thursday 24 January 1895. He was forty-five years old and had been unwell for some time.
Churchill, Lord Randolph (1849–95). An MP from 1874, Churchill was secretary to his father, the 7th duke of Marlborough, then lord-lieutenant of Ireland. After the Conservative defeat of 1880 he led a small ginger group known as the Fourth Party undermining the party leadership of Northcote.
Lord Randolph Churchill, (born Feb. 13, 1849, Blenheim Palace, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Eng.—died Jan. 24, 1895, London), British politician. Third son of the 7th duke of Marlborough, he entered the House of Commons in 1874.
Lord Randolph Churchill ’s life has long been over-shadowed by the enduring fame of his son. By comparison with Winston’s heroic feats as a war leader, the father’s political career was brief, embedded in the obscure and long-forgotten politics of late Victorian Britain, and a conspicuous failure.
24 June: Lord Randolph Churchill appointed Secretary of State for India. 23 November – 18 December: General election nets Gladstone and the Liberals the most seats but not an overall majority. Gladstone is briefly Prime Minister in February-July 1886.