Sir Winston Churchill (November 30 1874 – January 24

1965)

“History will be kind to me for I intend

to write it.”

A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the

British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British prime minister to have received the

Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

Churchill, aged seven, in 1881.

The grandson of the 7th Duke of Marlborough. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a charismatic politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer; his mother, Jennie Jerome, was an American socialite.

As a young army officer, he saw action in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He gained fame as a war correspondent and wrote books about his campaigns.

Churchill met his future wife, Clementine Hozier, in 1904 at a ball in Crewe House, home of the Earl of Crewe and Crewe's wife Margaret Primrose

He was Prime Minister of the UK from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Arm

The Nobel Prize in Literature

1953 was awarded to

Winston Churchill "for his

mastery of historical and biographical

description as well as for

brilliant oratory in defending

exalted human values".

Winston Churchill giving his famous 'V' sign—on 20 May 1940, just ten days after Churchill became Prime Minister, German troops reached the English Channel.

Winston Churchill at the Yalta Conference, with Roosevelt and Stalin

Statue in Parliament Square, London