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Encyclopedia: Winston Churchill

For other uses, see Churchill (disambiguation).

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was an English statesman, soldier, and author. Well-known as an orator and strategist, Churchill was one of the most important leaders in modern British and world history. A prolific author, he won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature for his many books on English and world history.^[1] Sir Winston Churchill was voted the greatest-ever Briton in the 2002 BBC poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.^[2]

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1965 in politics

Events ( Elections, laws passed, cabinet reshuffles, etc ) January 1 Deaths January 24 Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940-1945) and (1951-1955...

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Esmond Romilly

Esmond Romilly (born 1918) was the nephew of Winston Churchill. He served in Royal Air Force and was killed in 1941 during a bombing raid over Nazi Germany...

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Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

Frederick Alexander Lindemann (1886-1957) was a physicist who was a scientific adviser to the British government and a close associate of Winston Churchill...

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Air Department

The Air Department of the British Admiralty was established prior to World War I by Winston Churchill. Its function was to oversee the Royal Naval Air Service. Its first head was Captain Murray Sueter...

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Earthstation One

Earthstation One is an online archive of video, audio and photographic records of historic events. It includes the moon landings, the second world war, the Hindenburg crash, media records of Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy and much more...

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Icel

Icel (? - c. 501) was the great-grandfather of Creoda of Mercia. He was also the 43rd-great-grandfather of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Icel's son was Cnebba of Mercia...

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Churchill (disambiguation)

Succession Sir Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II Winston Spencer Churchill, a living British Conservative politician and grandson of Sir Winston Churchill. Winston... Churchill may refer to: The Churchill family, the family of the English Dukes of Marlborough...

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Arthur Greenwood

Arthur Greenwood (1880-1954) became deputy leader of the Labour Party under Clement Attlee with Winston Churchill appointing him to the Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio in 1940. Generally seen as ineffectual, he resigned in 1943 and his political role gradually declined until his withdrawal...

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Baron Llewellin

The title of Baron Llewellin was created in 1945 for John Jestyn Llewellin, a politician who had served as President of the Board of Trade and Minister of Food under Winston Churchill. The title became extinct upon his death in 1957. Barons Llewellin (1945) John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron...

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George Cornwallis-West

George Frederick Myddleton Cornwallis-West (1874-1951) was a British officer of the Scots Guards notable for his marriage to the mother of Winston Churchill, Jennie Jerome, in 1900. They were separated in 1912 and divorced in April 1914 He took, in April 1914, as his second wife, Beatrice (Stella...

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