Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, born on 30-11-1874 in Blenheim, Oxfordshire into the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Marlborough. A branch of the noble
Spencer family, Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, like his father, used the surname “Churchill” in public life.
Independent and rebellious by nature, Churchill generally did poorly in school, for which he was punished. He was educated at three independent schools: St. George’s School, Ascot, Berkshire; Brunswick School in Hove. He was rarely visited by his mother, and wrote letters begging her either to come to the school or to allow him to come home. His relationship with his father was distant; he once remarked that they barely spoke to one another. His father died on 24-01-1895, aged 45, leaving Churchill with the conviction that he too would die young and so should be quick about making his mark on the world. Churchill met his future wife, Clementine Hozier,
in 1904 at a ball in Crewe House, On 12-09-1908, they were married in St. Margaret’s, Westminster. Their first child, Diana, was born in London on 11-07-1909.




After the pregnancy, Clementine moved to Sussex to recover, while Diana stayed in London with her nanny. Later she suffered from several nervous breakdowns and committed suicide, age 54 in 1963, she took an overdose of barbiturates.



Grave Diana. Grave Randolph. Grave of mother Clementine Hozier.
On 28-05-1911, their second child, Randolph, was born at 33 Eccleston. he died on 06-06-1968 from a heart attack, age 57. On 12-10-1899, the Second Boer War between Britain and the Boer Republics broke out and he obtained a commission to act as war correspondent for the Morning Post with a salary of £250 per month. Winston had a brief but eventful career in the army,
he became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1900. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, a post which he had earlier held from 1911 to 1915. Churchill also served under David Lloyd George

as Minister of War and Air (1919-20). In May 1940, he became Prime Minister and Minister of Defence and remained in office until 1945. He took over the premiership from Neville Chamberlain.
Churchill also developed a strong personal relationship with Franklin Delano Roosevelt























Death and burial ground of Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer.





On 15-01-1965, Churchill suffered a severe stroke that left him gravely ill. He died at his London home nine days later, at age 90, on the morning of Sunday 24-01-1965, 70 years to the day after his father’s death. (see Did you know) Winston is buried with his wife Clementine, born Spencer, who died old age 92, in 1977, on the Saint Martin’s Churchyard, in Bladon, England.

