Sir Winston ChurchillWinston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, the eldest son of Lord Randolph Churchill and a descendent of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
Educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, he was commissioned in the 4th Queens’s Own Hussars in 1895.
He served in the 1897 Malakand and 1898 Nile campaign and as a London newspaper correspondent in the Boer War was captured but escaped with a $25 reward offered for his recapture.
In 1900, he entered parliament as a Conservative MP, but crossed the flour of the House to join the Liberal majority in 1906.
He was Secretary of State for War and Air from 1919 to 1921, but then found himself out of favor and was excluded from the Cabinet.
Neville Chamberlain at last steeped down and Churchill began his “walk with destiny” as Prime Minster of the coalition.
He was the first premier since the Duke of Wellington to have first hand experience of battle, and also he was an accomplished orator, able to convince the people by a parliamentary statement or radio broadcast, that even in the blackest moments Great Britain would eventually be victorious.
In the general election of 1945 Churchill was rejected by the British electorate; but by 1951 at the age of 77, he was Prime Minster again.
In 1955 he finally relinquished the premiership to Anthony Eden at the age of 81, its post war recovery was nearly complete.
Sir Winston Churchill
