Churchill, Rt Hon. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer

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Churchill, Rt Hon. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (1874–1965), eldest son of Lord Randolph Churchill (third son of the 7th duke of Marlborough), first lord of the Admiralty, 1911–15; secretary of state for war, 1918–21; for the colonies, 1921–2; chancellor of the exchequer, 1924–9; prime minister, 1940–5, and 1951–5. Among his publications are: London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (1900), Lord Randolph Churchill (1906–7), My African Journey (1908), Liberalism and the Social Problem (1909), The World Crisis (4 vols, 1923–9), My Early Life (1930), Marlborough (1933–8), War Speeches 1940–5 (1946), The Second World War (6 vols, 1948–54), and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (4 vols, 1956–8). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1953.

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