Winston Churchill
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Winston Churchill Net Worth 2024, Height, Wiki, Age

Statesman, writer

Net worth: $7,000,000

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Height: 169 cm / 5 ft 7 in tall

Birthday

: 30 November 1874

Birthplace

: Blenheim, Oxfordshire, England, U.K.

Sign

: Sagittarius

Died

: 24 January 1965

Lived

: 90 years

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Sir Winston Churchill was a British statesman, army officer, and writer
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Real name:	Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Winston Churchill Height
How tall was Winston Churchill?	169 cm / 5 ft 7 in
Born:	30 November 1874 Comment
When did Winston Churchill die? / Died	24 January 1965
How many years did Winston Churchill live? / Lived	90 years
Where was Winston Churchill born?	Blenheim, Oxfordshire, England, U.K.
Where did Winston Churchill die? / Deathplace	Kensington, London, England, U.K.
Nicknames:	Winnie, The British Bulldog, The Father of Europe
Zodiac sign:	Sagittarius
Winston Churchill Net worth 2024 (estimated)
How much is Winston Churchill worth?	$7,000,000
Ascendant:	Virgo
Nationality:	British
Hair color:	Gray
Eyes color:	Green

Who was Winston Churchill? / Facts

Early life and family - Of mixed English and American parentage, Churchill was born in Oxfordshire to a wealthy, aristocratic family.
His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, had been elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Woodstock in 1873.
His mother, Jennie, was a daughter of Leonard Jerome, a wealthy American businessman.
Education - Churchill began boarding at St. George's School in Ascot, Berkshire, at age 7, but was not academic and his behaviour was poor.
In 1884 he transferred to Brunswick School in Hove, where his academic performance improved.
In April 1888, aged 13, he narrowly passed the entrance exam for Harrow School.
His father wanted him to prepare for a military career and so his last 3 years at Harrow were in the army form.
After two unsuccessful attempts to gain admittance to the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, he succeeded on his third.
He was accepted as a cadet in the cavalry, starting in September 1893.
Trivia - Early in his life, he briefly worked as a greeting card designer for Hallmark.
Military service - He joined the British Army in 1895 and saw action in British India, the Anglo-Sudan War, and the Second Boer War, gaining fame as a war correspondent and writing books about his campaigns.
Famous for - He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, when he led the country to victory in the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.
Political career and views - Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, Churchill was a Member of Parliament from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies.
Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, as leader from 1940 to 1955.
He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.
First state appointment - In H. H. Asquith's Liberal government, Churchill served as President of the Board of Trade and Home Secretary, championing prison reform and workers' social security.
World War I - As First Lord of the Admiralty during the First World War, he oversaw the Gallipoli Campaign but, after it proved a disaster, he was demoted to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
He resigned in November 1915 and joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front for six months.
In 1917, he returned to government under David Lloyd George and served successively as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, and Secretary of State for the Colonies, overseeing the Anglo-Irish Treaty and British foreign policy in the Middle East.
Interbelic period - After two years out of Parliament, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Stanley Baldwin's Conservative government, returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as creating deflationary pressure and depressing the UK economy.
Out of office during the 1930s, Churchill took the lead in calling for British rearmament to counter the growing threat of militarism in Nazi Germany.
World War II and first term as Prime Minister - At the outbreak of the Second World War he was re-appointed First Lord of the Admiralty.
In May 1940, he became Prime Minister, replacing Neville Chamberlain.
Churchill oversaw British involvement in the Allied war effort against the Axis powers, resulting in victory in 1945.
After the Conservatives' defeat in the 1945 general election, he became Leader of the Opposition.
Cold War - Amid the developing Cold War with the Soviet Union, he publicly warned of an "iron curtain" of Soviet influence in Europe and promoted European unity.
Second term as Prime Minister - Re-elected Prime Minister in 1951, his second term was preoccupied with foreign affairs, especially Anglo-American relations and, despite ongoing decolonisation, preservation of the British Empire.
Domestically, his government emphasised house-building and developed a nuclear weapon.
In declining health, Churchill resigned as Prime Minister in 1955, although he remained a Member of Parliament until 1964.
Painting - As well as a politician, Churchill was also an author and a prolific artist.
In 1915 Churchill began his painting career, going on to produce some 500 works during his lifetime.
He made countless attractive, idealized landscapes, many of which were later reproduced on greetings cards.
In 1947 Churchill had two works accepted by the Royal Academy, which he had submitted under the pseudonym David Winter.
By the time he died, Churchill had exhibited no less than 50 of his works at the Academy.
Personal life - In private life, Churchill proposed marriage to Clementine Hozier.
They were married in September 1908, and had 5 children.
His relationship with his wife was strained by the fact that she rose early every morning and he slept late. As a result they usually left notes and small letters to each other to maintain the intimacy.
Health - He may have had Alzheimer's disease in later life.
Although the Churchill Museum maintains his reduced mental capacity was the result of multiple minor strokes since 1949, his symptoms were consistent with the illness.
Death - In June 1962, when he was 87, Churchill had a fall in Monte Carlo and broke his hip.
He was flown home to a London hospital where he remained for three weeks.
Churchill was never the same after this accident
Upon his death because of a final stroke in 1965, he was given a state funeral.
Greta Garbo attended his funeral, as an extremely rare 1965 photograph proves.
Legacy - Widely considered one of the 20th century's most significant figures, Churchill remains popular in the UK and Western world, where he is seen as a victorious wartime leader who played an important role in defending Europe's liberal democracy against the spread of fascism.
He is listed today as one of the founding fathers of the European Union.
Conversely, he has been criticised for some wartime events, notably the 1945 bombing of Dresden, and for his imperialist views and comments on race.
Awards - Also praised as a social reformer and writer, among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Churchill was allegedly disappointed that it wasn't the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to prevent the Cold War between the East and West from deteriorating into nuclear conflict.
He was awarded the O.M. (Order of Merit) and C.H. (Companion of Honour), andcreated a Knight of the Most Noble Order of Garter (KG) on 24 April 1953, but allegedly declined a dukedom.
In 1963, US President John F. Kennedy, acting under authorisation granted by an Act of Congress, proclaimed him an Honorary Citizen of the United States.

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Education

St. George's School
Brunswick School
Harrow School
Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst

Quotes

[commenting on the Battle of Britain] Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.

[when told by Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you are drunk, and what's more, you are disgustingly drunk"] Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what's more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober, and you will still be disgustingly ugly.

[when told by Lady Astor that if she were his wife she would poison his tea] If I were your husband, I would drink it.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

[on the Soviet Union] It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Success is not final; failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.

[on his deathbed] I'm so bored with it all.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

The territories of the future are the territories of the mind.

Fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

I like a man who grins when he fights.