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A Short Biography of Sir Winston Churchill

Author Name:

Sir Winston Churchill

Born As:

Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

Other Names:

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC - Can.

Born:

30 Nov 1874

Died:

14 Jan 1965




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Conservative Politician                          
Non Fiction:

The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898)
The River War (1899)
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (1900)
Ian Hamilton's March (1900)
Lord Randolph Churchill (1906)
My African Journey (1908)
The World Crisis (1923–31)
My Early Life (1930)
Thoughts and Adventures (1932)
Marlborough: His Life and Times (1933–38)
Great Contemporaries (1937)
The Second World War (1948–53)
Painting as a Pastime (1948)
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)


Fiction:

Savrola (1900)
"If Lee Had NOT Won the Battle of Gettysburg" in If It Had Happened Otherwise (1931)
The Dream (1947)                                                                                    
Mother Jennie Jerome
Father Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill
Brother John Strange Spencer-Churchill
Wife  Clementine Hozier
Five children, Diana, Randolph, Sarah, Marigold, and Mary.                                                                               
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies: 1905–1908
President of the Board of Trade: 1908–1910
Home Secretary: 1910–1911
First Lord of the Admiralty: 1911–1915
Chancellor of the Exchequer: 1924–1929
First Lord of the Admiralty: 1939–1940
Prime Minister of Britain: 1940-1945
Leader of the opposition: 1946-1951
Prime Minister of Britain: 1951-1955