Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1874.11.30.—1965.1.24.
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard SpencerChurchill was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States.
是英国政客和政治家,他领 导英国在第二次世界大战期 间的。 他被广泛认为是本世 纪最伟大的战时领导人之一, 并作为担任总理两次( 1940 - 45 及 1951 - 55 )。 一 位著名的政治家和演说家, 丘吉尔人员在英国的军队, 一个历史学家,作家和艺术 家。 他是唯一有获得诺贝尔 文学奖 的英国首相,而且是 第一人,美国名誉公民。
Personal details
Born: 30 November 1874 Died: 24 January 1965
(aged 90)
Spouse (s): Clementine Relations
Churchill (m. 1908–1965)
Diana Churchill Randolph Churchill Sarah Tuchet-Jesson Marigold Churchill Mary Soames
Children :
Lord Randolph Churchill (father) Lady Randolph Churchill (mother) John Strange Spencer-Churchill (brother) Pamela Harriman (former daughterin-law) Winston Churchill (grandson)
Family and Early life
Churchill was born into the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Marlborough. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill was a charismatic politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer; his mother Jenny Jerome, an American socialite. Because of the lack of parental contact, he became very close to his nanny, Elizabeth Anne Everest, whom he used to call "Old Woom".
Education
He was educated at three independent schools: St. George's School, Ascot, Brunswick School in Hove and then at Harrow School from 17 April 1888, where his military career began. After Churchill left Harrow in 1893, he applied to attend the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Winston Churchill graduated from the royal military academy at sandhurst in 1894.
Churchill in military uniform in 1895
A young Winston Churchill on a lecture tour of the United States in 1900
Churchill in military uniform in 1895
Early Political career
Churchill with the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1916
Churchill's election poster for the 1900 general election. He contested Oldham, and won one of the seats. After the Whitsun recess in 1904 he crossed the floor to sit as a member of the Liberal Party. When the Liberals took office with Henry Campbell-Bannerman as prime minister, in December 1905, Churchill became Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies dealing mainly with South Africa after the Boer War. When Campbell
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