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| A Passing; 41 years ago today. | |
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| George K | Jan 24 2006, 05:00 PM Post #1 |
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RIP, Winston. http://www.biography.com/search/article.js...earch=churchill British statesman, prime minister (1940–5, 1951–5), and author, born in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, SC England, UK, the eldest son of Randolph Churchill. He trained at Sandhurst Military Academy, and was gazetted to the 4th Hussars in 1895. His army career included fighting at Omdurman (1898) with the Nile Expeditionary Force. During the second Boer War he acted as a London newspaper correspondent. Initially a Conservative MP (1900), he joined the Liberals in 1904, and was colonial under-secretary (1905), President of the Board of Trade (1908), home secretary (1910), and First Lord of the Admiralty (1911). In 1915 he was made the scapegoat for the Dardanelles disaster, but in 1917 became minister of munitions. After World War 1 he was secretary of state for war and air (1919–21), and - as a ‘Constitutionalist’ supporter of the Conservatives - Chancellor of the Exchequer (1924–9). In 1929 he returned to the Conservative fold, but remained out of step with the leadership until World War 2, when he returned to the Admiralty; then, on Chamberlain's defeat (May 1940), he formed a coalition government, holding both the premiership and the defence portfolio, and leading Britain through the war against Germany, Italy, and Japan with steely resolution. Defeated in the July 1945 election, he became a pugnacious Leader of the Opposition. In 1951 he was prime minister again, and after 1955 remained a venerated backbencher. In his last years, he was often described as ‘the greatest living Englishman’. |
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| John D'Oh | Jan 24 2006, 05:07 PM Post #2 |
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You don't hear the word 'pugnacious' often enough in my book. As everyone is sick of hearing, I think he was a pretty unique bloke. Plenty of faults, but plenty of very positive qualities too. Strangely enough, I believe that my very first memory is of his funeral, I think my dad sat me down in front of the TV and told me what a great man he was until I threw up on him (I was less than 2 at the time) - the brainwashing clearly worked, and I still have a very vivid impression of seeing this coffin being drawn along. Of course, it's hard to tell how much is a memory and how much is wishful thinking. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| ivorythumper | Jan 24 2006, 05:19 PM Post #3 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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I too have clear memories of Winston's funeral (I was 4), and remember a special issue of National Geographic with a flimsy tear out record of his funeral and speeches. Trivia time: Name a direct connection between Winston Churchill and Arizona. |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| John D'Oh | Jan 24 2006, 05:27 PM Post #4 |
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Well, it certainly wouldn't be dryness. Jerome, AZ? His mother was a yank by that name, but I thought she was from NY. Hmmmmm.... Edit - After an honest start I couldn't resist cheating and Googling. |
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| ivorythumper | Jan 24 2006, 05:31 PM Post #5 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Yep! Jennie Jerome's father owned the mining town of Jerome. Did you also know Winnie was part native american? Dryness! :lol: Only in his choice of gins! |
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| John D'Oh | Jan 24 2006, 05:37 PM Post #6 |
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No, I didn't know that. I've heard somewhere else that he was also a distant relative of Mussolini, but can't find anything to back it up. |
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| jon-nyc | Jan 25 2006, 02:42 AM Post #7 |
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Cheers
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His mother was born less than a block from where I live, in a house on Amity St in Brooklyn. |
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