Presentation
Margit Uiboaid
Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
 1874-1965
He was...
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Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom twice
1940-1945
1951-1955
Statesman and orator
Artist
Writer
British first lord of the
admiralty 1911-1915,
1939-1940
He got...
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Nobel Prize in
Literature 1953
Made honorary US
citizen 1963
Early years
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His father was a Tory politcian
His mother a daughter of an American
millionaire
Was born 2 months premature
Had one brother
Didn’t have close relationship with his parents
but became close to his nanny, called her
Woomany
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She shone for me like the Evening Star. I
loved her dearly - but at a distance.
Churchill on his mother
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I then had one of the three or four long
intimate conversations with him which are all
I can boast.
Churchill on his father
Problem
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He had a speech impediment
Worked hard to overcome it
Finally stated that this is no hindrance
It is said that he excelled because of, rather
than in spite of, his cluttering
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Success is the ability to
go from one failure to
another with no loss of
enthusiasm.
Marriage
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Got married to
Clementine Hozier in
1908, he was 34 then
They had 5 children
Their youngest
daughter Mary is still
alive
It was a life-long
romance
Career
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Worked as a war journalist during Boer War,
was captured and made a prisoner-of-war
before escaping
Served both as a Conservative and a Liberal
MP
In 1940 became a British Prime Minister who
inspired people with his brilliant speeches
through these difficult times
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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil,
tears, and sweat.
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight
in France, we shall fight on the seas
and oceans, we shall fight with growing
confidence and growing strength in the
air, we shall defend our Island, whatever
the cost may be, we shall fight on the
beaches...
Holocaust
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Churchill was the one who spoke
against holocaust, called it the
cruelest forms of persecution
To help refugees, in March 1944
Churchill by-passed the pre-war
British government's restrictions
on Jewish immigration to
Palestine
Churchill as a writer
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His topic was history
As with all Churchill's works, they have
nothing to say about economic or social
history
These are very personal writings about war
and politics
Death
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Churchill died on 24
January 1965 and was
given a state funeral
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He died at the age of
91
Materials used:
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http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Sir_W
inston_Churchill/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genoc
ide