English politician, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Summary information

Born: 30 November in 1874

Blenheim, Oxfordshire,

United Kingdom

Died: January 24, 1965 (aged 90)

Hyde Park, London,

United Kingdom

Nationality: British

Political party: Conservative

(1900–1904, 1924–1964)

Liberal (1904–1924)

Residence: 10 Downing Street

Profession: Member of Parliament,

statesman, soldier, journalist, historian,

author, painter

He was born on 30

November 1874.

Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-ChurchillJenny Jacobson/Jerome

Churchill's parents

A Young Winston Churchill

As a boy, He was educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, and was sent to India with a cavalry

commission in 1895.

In 1900 he became a

politician in the Conservative

Party, and was elected to

Parliament. In 1904 he

changed parties and joined

the Liberal Party, but later

returned to the Conservative

Party.

He married Clementine

Hozier in 1908, and had 5

children.

Randolph Churchill and his wife with their daughter

Arabella Spencer Churchill

World War IIn 1910 Churchill became Home

Secretary, one of the most

important members of the

government.

World War IIAt the start of World War II,

Churchill was again put in charge

of the Navy. In 1940 the war was

going badly for Britain. In May

1940, Neville Chamberlain

resigned as prime minister and

Churchill took his place.

Churchill had many meetings with Roosevelt and with

Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, after

they came into the war. They were called the Big

Three.

In 1945, his Conservative party

lost an election. He stopped

being Prime Minister.

In 1951, he became Prime

Minister again.

In 1953, he was knighted and

became Sir Winston, and also

won the Nobel Prize in

Literature.

In 1955, he retired from being

Prime Minister.

In 1964, he retired from

Parliament.

Churchill died on 24 January

1965 and was given a state

funeral.