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Biography

The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill(1874-1965), the son

of Lord Randolph Chr!hill and an "#eri!an #other, $as ed!ated at %arro$ and &andhrst' "fter a rief t eentfl

!areer in the ar#y, he e!a#e a Conseratie *e#er of +arlia#ent in 19' %e held #any high posts in Lieral and

Conseratie goern#ents dring the first three de!ades of the !entry' "t the otrea of the &e!ond .orld .ar, he$as appointed /irst Lord of the "d#iralty - a post $hi!h he had earlier held fro# 1911 to 1915' 0n *ay, 194, he

e!a#e +ri#e *inister and *inister of efen!e and re#ained in offi!e ntil 1945' %e too oer the pre#iership again in

the Conseratie i!tory of 1951 and resigned in 1955' %o$eer, he re#ained a *e#er of +arlia#ent ntil the general

ele!tion of 1964, $hen he did not see re-ele!tion' 2een 3liaeth 00 !onferred on Chr!hill the dignity of nighthood

and inested hi# $ith the insignia of the rder of the arter in 195' "#ong the other !ontless honors and

de!orations he re!eied, spe!ial #ention shold e #ade of the honorary !itienship of the nited &tates $hi!h

+resident ennedy !onferred on hi# in 196'

Chr!hill:s literary !areer egan $ith !a#paign reports; The Story of the Malakand Field Force(1898) and The River

War(1899), an a!!ont of the !a#paign in the &dan and the Battle of #dr#an' 0n 19, he plished his onlynoel, Savrola, and, si< years later, his first #a=or $or, the iography of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill' %is other

fa#os iography, the life of his great an!estor, the e of *arlorogh, $as plished in for ol#es et$een 19

and 198' Chr!hill:shistory of the /irst .orld .ar appeared in for ol#es nder the title ofThe World Crisis(19>-

>9)? his #e#oirs of the &e!ond .orld .ar ran to si< ol#es (1948-195@54)' "fter his retire#ent fro# offi!e, Chr!hill

$rote a History of theEnglish-speaking eoples(4ols', 1956-58)' %is #agnifi!ent oratory sries in a doen ol#es

of spee!hes, a#ong the# The !nrelenting Struggle(194>), The "a#n of Li$eration(1945), and Ai!tory (1946)'

Chr!hill, a gifted a#ater painter, $rote ainting as a asti%e(1948)' "n atoiographi!al a!!ont of his yoth, My

Early Life, appeared in 19'
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.inston Chr!hill, the son of Randolph Chr!hill, a Conseratiepoliti!ian, $as orn in Blenhei# +ala!e, .oodsto!, on thoe#er, 1874' %is #other, ennie ero#e, $as the daghter ofLeonard ero#e, ae$ Dorsiness#an'

"fter eing ed!ated at %arro$he $ent to the Royal *ilitaryCollege at &andhrst' Chr!hill =oined the /orth %ssars in 1895

and sa$ a!tion on the 0ndian north-$est frontier and in the &dan$here he too part in the Battle of #dr#an (1898)'

.hile in the ar#y Chr!hill spplied #ilitary reports for the "ailyTelegraphand $rote oos s!h as The Story of the MalakandField Force(1898) and The River War(1899)'

"fter leaing the British "r#yin 1899, Chr!hill $ored as a $ar !orrespondent forthe Morning ost' .hile reporting the Boer .arin &oth "fri!a he $as taen prisoner ythe Boers t #ade headline ne$s $hen he es!aped' n retrning to 3ngland he $roteaot his e

n 1>th &epte#er 198 Chr!hill #arried Cle#entine gily &pen!er and the follo$ingyear plished a oo on his politi!al philosophy, Li$eralis% and the Socialro$le%(199)'

/ollo$ing the 191 eneral 3le!tionChr!hill e!a#e %o#e &e!retary' Chr!hillintrod!ed seeral refor#s to the prison syste#, in!lding the proision of le!trers and!on!erts for prisoners and the setting p of spe!ial after-!are asso!iations to help !oni!tsafter they had sered their senten!e' %o$eer, Chr!hill $as seerely !riti!ied for sing

troops to #aintain order dring a .elsh #iners:s strie'

n 16 e!e#er 191, a gang atte#pted to rea into the rear of a =e$eller:s shopin %ondsdit!h' "n ad=a!ent shopeeper heard their ha##ering, and infor#ed the poli!e'.hen the poli!e arried, the roers rst ot, shooting three offi!ers dead' Fhe gangleader, a Latian, +olosi *oronteff, $as a!!idently shot in the a! y another gang#e#er, and died later'

.inston Chr!hill i##ediately annon!ed that the poli!e $as looing for a gang of e$ishanar!hists' 0t $as also i#portant to the goern#ent that the in!ident did not !ase anti-e$ish feeling and the !oroner #ade a point of stressing Gin =sti!e and fairness to the

e$ish !o##nityG that he $as n!ir!#!ised'

"!ting on a tip-off, poli!e srronded 1 &idney &treet in &tepneyon >nd anary 1911'Chr!hill hrried to the s!ene in order to dire!t operations' %e $as greeted y !ries ofG$ho let the# i##igrants inHG Chr!hill athorised the deploy#ent of 1>4 soldiers'
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Winston Churchill at the Siege of Sidney Street

The Manchester (uardianreported; GFhe firing !a#e in sprts' Fhe #rderers $oldshoot first fro# the grond floor, then the $indo$ aoe I then there $old e a aringof rifles in reply' Close on one o:!lo! an espe!ially sharp fsillade rattled lie a gro$l ofe


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