![]() In 1896, he went to India his first book, published in 1898, was an account of his experiences in India’s Northwest Frontier Province. ![]() Battles and BooksĪfter he left Sandhurst, Churchill traveled all around the British Empire as a soldier and as a journalist. Instead, in 1893 young Winston Churchill headed off to military school at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was educated at the Harrow prep school, where he performed so poorly that he did not even bother to apply to Oxford or Cambridge. (Rich American girls like Jerome who married European noblemen were known as “dollar princesses.”)ĭid you know? Sir Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 for his six-volume history of World War II.Ĭhurchill was born at the family’s estate near Oxford on November 30, 1874. His mother, born Jennie Jerome, was an American heiress whose father was a stock speculator and part-owner of The New York Times. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was descended from the First Duke of Marlborough and was himself a well-known figure in Tory politics in the 1870s and 1880s. I think the OP is right that if Winston Churchill became Lord Marlborough in 1890, his chances of getting the Premiership shrink dramatically, though it is still possible.Winston Churchill came from a long line of English aristocrat-politicians. He stood up, walked to the window, and said not a word in response.īack to the question, it likely depends on when it happens. In the event, Churchill took the surprise third option. "Yes." In this case, very likely, Chamberlain would have chided Churchill on his obvious self-service, and attacked him for it in the Commons to harm his prospects. "No." In this case, Chamberlain would likely have said that he would be happy to recommend Lord Halifax to His Majesty upon his own resignation.Ģ). His intent was almost certainly to leave Churchill with two possible answers.ġ). As I recall there is a story of a meeting which took place between the three, in which Chamberlain, trying to sound casual, asked Churchill if he thought there was anything especially wrong with the idea of a Peer as Prime Minister in 1940. 10 when it became apparent that his position there was untenable. Neville Chamberlain openly wanted Lord Halifax, also known as Edward Wood, to succeed him in No. How does that affect his leadership of Britain, his relations with FDR, his image in the U.S.? The first duke was a great general, and I could see the linkage being a positive but the heavy aristocratic associations would hurt, too. His younger brother John is available to inherit the title, and after 1911 Winston's son Randolph. Note: Churchill's personal recklessness (serving on the Western Front of WW I, playing polo into his 40s) probably is not constrained by this. ![]()
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