He was not given any job in the government. He became Chancellor of the Exchequer (Minister of Finance) in 1924.Īfter 1929, Churchill disagreed with many things the Conservative party believed in. In 1925 he joined the Conservative Party again. In 1924 he became a member of Parliament again, this time not as a member of any party. Soon after, in 1922 he lost in an election. In 1921 he was in charge of the colonies as Secretary of State. In 1920, he ordered the first air bombing in Africa when he bombed the Darwiish State, (also called Daraawiish State). In 1917 he was made minister in charge of military supplies (Minister of Munitions).īetween the wars Īfter World War I, in 1919, Churchill was made Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Air ( aircraft). He joined the army and was sent to fight in France, although he was still a Member of Parliament. He organized an invasion in Gallipoli which went wrong, and because of this, he was made to leave the government. When World War I broke out, he stayed in that job. In 1911 he was made First Lord of the Admiralty, which put him in charge of the Royal Navy. In 1910 Churchill became Home Secretary, one of the most important members of the government. He married Clementine Hozier in 1908, and had five children named Diana, Randolph, Sarah, Marigold and Mary. In 1904, he changed parties and joined the Liberal Party, but later returned to the Conservative Party. In 1900, he became a politician in the Conservative Party, and was elected to Parliament. He was captured by the Boers, but managed to escape. In 1899, he went to the Second Boer War in South Africa, to be a newspaper reporter. After this, he fought in a war in Sudan, in 1898 as an officer in the cavalry. In 1896, he was transferred to Bombay, in what was the Indian Empire ( British India). He did not get good results, but said he was good at fighting. Īs a boy, Churchill went to the famous Harrow School. His mother (née Jenny Jerome) was American.
His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a younger son of the 7th Duke, and a leading Tory politician. Winston Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England, the home of the Dukes of Marlborough. He is the only British Prime Minister to have received the Nobel Prize. A million votes were cast, and the voting was heavily influenced by public campaigns from various candidates. In a 2002 BBC 2 television poll, Churchill was ranked as the greatest Briton in history. They were asked by BBC Radio 4's The Westminster Hour to rank the 19 prime ministers from Lord Salisbury at the turn of the century through to John Major in the 1990s. He was ranked as the greatest British prime minister of the twentieth century by 20 prominent historians, politicians and commentators. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1953. He was also a soldier, journalist, and author. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, once during World War II, and again in the early 1950s.Ĭhurchill was the only person to have been a member of the British Government during both World Wars, and the last commoner (non-royal) to be granted a state funeral.
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill KG OM CH TD FRS PC (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was an English politician. Churchill in military uniform in 1895 A young Winston Churchill on a lecture tour of the United States in 1900
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