Sir Winston Churchill

1. Sir Winston Churchill

“History will
be kind to me
for I intend to
write it.”
(November 30 1874 – January 24 1965)
Created by Valentina Radnaeva,
Khorinsk Secondary School №2

2.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
A noted statesman and
orator, Churchill was
also an officer in the
British Army, a
historian, a writer, and
an artist. He is the only
British prime minister
to have received the
Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1953

3. Churchill, aged seven, in 1881.

4.

The grandson of the 7th
Duke of Marlborough. His
father, Lord Randolph
Churchill, was a
charismatic politician
who served as Chancellor
of the Exchequer; his
mother, Jennie Jerome,
was an American
socialite.

5.

As
a young army
officer, he saw
action in British
India, the Sudan,
and the Second Boer
War. He gained fame
as a war
correspondent and
wrote books about
his campaigns.

6.

Churchill
met his future wife,
Clementine Hozier, in 1904 at a ball in
Crewe House, home of the Earl of Crewe
and Crewe's wife Margaret Primrose

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8.

He
was
Prime
Minister of
the UK from
1940 to 1945
and again
from 1951 to
1955.

9.

A
noted statesman
and orator, Churchill
was also an officer in
the British Arm

10.

11.

The Nobel Prize in
Literature 1953 was
awarded to Winston
Churchill "for his
mastery of
historical and
biographical
description as well
as for brilliant
oratory in
defending exalted
human values".

12.

Winston
Churchill
giving his famous
'V' sign—on 20
May 1940, just ten
days after
Churchill became
Prime Minister,
German troops
reached the
English Channel.