Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on November 30th 1984. He was the son of Lord Randolph Churchill
and an American woman. His education includes Harrow and the Royal
Military College, Sandhurst.
Churchill was the older of two sons. His father died on January 24th 1895,
a year after he became a cadet at Sandhurst Academy.
On May 31, 1904, he moved from the Conservative Party to the Liberal Party.
Twenty years later, however, he moved back to the Conservative Party. On the 12th
of September 1908, he married Clementine, daughter of Sir Henry Hozier and Lady Blanche. When the Second World
War began, he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, a post which he had earlier held from 1911 to 1915. In May, 1940,
he became Prime Minister and Minister of Defense and remained in office until 1945. He became Prime Mister again in 1951 when
the Conservative Party regained power, but he resigned once again in 1955. Still, he was part of the Parliament until 1964,
when he did not run for reelection.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898) and The River War (1899) were the
beginning of his literary works. It was an account of the campaign in the Sudan
and the Battle of Omdurman. His only novel, Savrola, was published in 1900, and
he in 1906, he published the biography of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill.
The Unrelenting Struggle (1942), The Dawn of Liberation (1945), and Victory
(1946) are all examples of his oratory. Churchill died in 1965.
Thanks to the following websites for research:
http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1953/churchill-bio.html
http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/churchill_papers/biography/churchill_chronology.shtml
