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Sir Winston Churchill FRS (18 April 1620 – 26 March 1688), known as the Cavalier Colonel, was an English soldier, historian, and politician. He was the father of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and a direct ancestor and namesake of Sir Winston Churchill, who served as British prime minister in the 20th century during the ...
Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (Woodstock, 30 de noviembre de 1874-Londres, 24 de enero de 1965), conocido como Winston Churchill, fue un político, militar, escritor y estadista británico que se desempeñó como primer ministro del Reino Unido de 1940 a 1945, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y nuevamente de 1951 a 1955 por ...
Sir Winston Churchill FRS (18 de abril de 1620 - 26 de marzo de 1688), conocido como el Coronel Cavalier, fue un soldado, noble, historiador y político inglés. Fue el padre de John Churchill, primer duque de Marlborough y antepasado directo de su homónimo Winston, quien se desempeñó como primer ministro británico en el siglo XX. Vida y ...
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.
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Churchill had many cats in his life, both at Chartwell and in government service. At Chartwell, these included a tabby, Mickey, and Tango which was the orange hue called marmalade. Tango was there in the 1930s and 1940s and appears in anecdotes about those years. But Churchill's most famous wartime cat was Nelson who was initially a mouser at the A...
A popular image for Churchill was the British bulldog and his first dog was a bulldog called Dodo which he sold his bicycle to buy when he was a pupil at Harrow School. But, for most of his life, he supposed that dogs did not like him until, during the Second World War, he acquired a brown poodle called Rufus. Rufus was a close companion and accomp...
Churchill kept goldfish in his ponds at Chartwell. In 1938, the round pond was stocked with a thousand golden orfe which he often fed personally with maggots, even when he was Prime Minister during the Second World War. Ottersdevastated this school in 1945, leaving just one, but he restocked them and, in the 1950s, hand-feeding his "darlings" was s...
Churchill's parents were keen equestrians and he was born prematurely after his mother had a rough ride in a pony trap. He was an accident-prone and frail child and rode horses in his youth as a way of developing and displaying physical courage. This started at the age of seven with rides on a pony called Rob Roy at Blenheim Palace, which was his g...
Churchill was very fond of his flock of black swans. Sir Philip Sassoon gave Churchill his first pair of black swans in 1927. Soon after their arrival at Chartwell, a wire fence was erected around the upper lake to protect them from his mute swan named Jupiter, whom Churchill described as "irate". In a letter to Sassoon, he marvelled that the black...
Sir Winston Churchill FRS (18 April 1620 – 26 March 1688), known as the Cavalier Colonel, was an English soldier, historian, and politician.
Biografía. Winston Churchill nació el 30 de noviembre de 1874 en el palacio de Blenheim, por aquel entonces propiedad de su abuelo, séptimo duque de Marlborough. Su padre era lord Randolph Churchill y su madre una joven norteamericana de deslumbrante belleza llamada Jennie Jerome.
