Winston Churchill Biography

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer - Clementine Churchill was said to be a British politician, writer, and military officer. He served his contributions as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945. And again from 1951 to 1955. In 1940, after becoming prime minister, Churchill helped lead a successful Allied strategy with the United States and the Soviet Union during World War II to defeat the craft postwar peace and Axis powers. Let us know about the Winston Churchill biography and the life of Winston Churchill in detail.

Early Years

To start Winston Churchill biography with his early life, his birth date was Nov 30, with the year 1874. His birthplace is Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, located in England.

From an early age, the young Churchill exhibited the traits of his father, named Lord Randolph Churchill. He is a British statesman who comes from a well-known English family. His mother, named Jeanette "Jennie" Jerome, is an independent-minded socialite of New York. Churchill grew up in Dublin, Ireland, where his father worked with the support of his grandpa, John Spencer-Churchill, the 7th Duke of Marlborough.

Clementine Churchill had also proved to be a rebellious and independent student; after poorly performing at his first two schools, named Churchill in Apr 1888 began attending the Harrow School, which is a boarding school located near to London. Churchill or Clementine Churchill joined the Harrow Rifle Corps, putting him on a military career path, just weeks after enrolling.

Firstly, it did not seem that the military was a good choice for Churchill; it took him 3 tries to pass that exam, which is attempted for the British Royal Military College. However, he did well once and graduated 20th out of 130 students in his class. 

Up to this particular time, his relationship with both his father and mother was distant, though he uses to adored them both. Churchill wrote some impassioned letters to his mother while he was in school, begging her to come and see him, and she did.

His father died when he was 21, and Churchill was claimed to only know him by reputation, as opposed to any other intimate relationship they had. There is also Winston Churchill biography book with the Churchill biography Andrew Roberts. Let us explore more details on Winston Churchill short biography.

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Winston Churchill Career in Military

Winston Churchill has enjoyed a brief as an eventful Winston Churchill career at a zenith of British military power in the British Army. In the year 1895, he joined the Own Hussars of Fourth Queen and has served in Sudan and the Indian northwest frontier, where he noticed the action in the Omdurman Battle in 1898

He authored military reports for the Daily Telegraph and the Pioneer Mail while in the Army, as well as two books about his experiences. They are: one is "The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898)" and the other is "The River War (1899)."

He left the army in the year 1899. Then, he went to work as a war correspondent for the Morning Post. It is a conservative daily newspaper. While reporting in South Africa on the Boer War, he was taken prisoner by Boers at the time of a scouting expedition.

When he escaped and travelled roughly 300 miles to Portuguese territory in Mozambique, he made the news. Upon his Britain return, he wrote much about his experiences in the book London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (in the year 1900). In the Winston Churchill biography book, you will find details on walking with destiny as well.

Parliament and Cabinet

In the same year (1900), Churchill was elected to the British Parliament as a Conservative Party member for Oldham, a Manchester suburb. Following in his father's footsteps into politics, he adopted his father's spirit of independence and became an advocate of social reform. Churchill shifted to the Liberal Party in 1904 after becoming disillusioned with the Conservative Party's commitment to social justice. He was elected as a member of Parliament in the year 1908. And, he was appointed to the cabinet of the prime minister as a president of the Board of Trade.

Churchill, as head of the Board of Trade, has joined David Lloyd George, who is the newly appointed Chancellor, in opposing the British Navy's establishment. He introduced many reforms for the prison system. Helped set up labour exchanges and unemployment insurance and Introduced the first minimum wage. Churchill also aided in the passage of the People's Budget, which imposed new taxes on the wealthy in order to fund the most recent social welfare initiatives. The budget was passed in the House of Commons in 1909 but was first defeated in the House of Lords before being passed in 1910.

In 1911 - Jan, Churchill exhibited his tougher side when he made a controversial visit to a police siege in London (UK), with two alleged robbers holed up in one building. Churchill's level of involvement, however, is disputable: some stories claim he went to the scene solely to observe what was going on, while others claim he gave police instructions on how to best storm the structure.

The known thing is that the house caught fire at the time of the siege. Churchill stopped the fire department from extinguishing the flames, claiming that it would be better to "let the home burn down" rather than risk everyone's lives rescuing the occupants. The two robbers' bodies were found later inside the charred ruins.

Wife and Children

In the year 1908, after a short courtship, Winston Churchill married Clementine Ogilvy Hozier. The couple was gifted with five children together. They are named Diana, Randolph, Sarah, Marigold (the one who died as a tonsillitis' toddler) and Mary. This is the life of Winston Churchill.

First Lord of the Admiralty

In 1911, named First Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill helped in modernizing the British Navy by ordering new warships be built with oil-fired as a substitution to the coal-fired engines. He was a pioneer in the promotion of military aviation and the establishment of the Royal Navy Air Service. He was very enthusiastic about aviation. It took flying lessons himself to understand its potential military firsthand. Also, Churchill drafted the legislation's controversial piece to amend the Mental Deficiency Act of the year 1913, mandating feeble-minded sterilization. The law mandating only the confinement cure in institutions eventually passed both houses of Parliament.

World War I

In his post, Churchill remained as First Lord of the Admiralty through the start of World War I. However, it was forced out for his part in the Gallipoli's disastrous Battle. He resigned from the government toward the end of the year 1915. Churchill rejoined the British Army by leading a battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, which saw action in "no man's land" on the Western Front for a period of time. Later, in 1917, he was named Minister of Ammunition for the final year of the war, where he oversaw the manufacturing of aeroplanes, tanks, and munitions.

After World War I

Churchill served as a war minister, aviation minister, and colonial secretary under Prime Minister David Lloyd George from 1919 until 1922. As a colonial secretary, Churchill was implicated in the other issue when he approved the use of airpower against rebellious Kurdish tribesmen in British-controlled Iraq. At a point, he suggested: poisonous gas is used to put down the rebellion, which is a proposal considered but never enacted.

In the Liberal Party, fractures led to Churchill'defeat as a member of Parliament in the year 1922. He then rejoined the Conservative Party and served as Chancellor of the Exchequer by returning Britain to the gold standard and took a hard line against the general labour strike, which threatened to cripple the economy of the British. In 1929, with the defeat of the Conservative government, Churchill was out of the government. He was then perceived as a right-wing extremist, being out of touch with the people.

Death

Churchill suffered a lot with his final stroke on 12 Jan 1965. Nearly two weeks later, he died on the 24 of the same month, which was the 17th anniversary of the death of his father. He was then given a state funeral  days later, i.e., on 30 Jan, the first for a non-royal person since Lord Carson in the year 1935.

His Legacy

Churchill became the leader of the opposition party six years after his defeat and continued to have an impact on world politics. In 1946 Mar, while on a visit to the US, he made his famous "Iron Curtain" speech, warning of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe. Also, he advocated that Britain remain independent from the European coalitions. With 1951's general election, Churchill returned to the government and became prime minister for the second time in 1951 Oct and served as the minister of defense between the period October 1951 and March 1952. Churchill went on to introduce the reforms such as the 1954's Mines and Quarries Act - which improved the mines' working conditions. And also, the 1955's Housing Repairs and Rent Act - established the standards for housing.