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Winston

Churchill

9th Cousin

2 times removed

Common Ancestor

Father: George Allen
Weymouth, Dorset, England Born: Died:
1567 - 1648 30 November1874 January 24 1965
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, Hyde Park Gate, London,
Mother: Katherine Watts England England
Somerset, England
1576 – 1624
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British
politician, army officer, and writer. He was the prime
minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, when
he led Britain to victory in the Second World War, and
again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill represented five
constituencies during his career as a member of
Parliament (MP). Ideologically an economic
liberal and imperialist, for most of his career he was a
member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940
to 1955, but from 1904 to 1924 was a member of
the Liberal Party.

Of mixed English and American parentage, Churchill was
born to a wealthy, aristocratic family. 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.

Elected an MP in 1900, initially as a Conservative, he defected to the Liberals in 1904. In H. H.
Asquith's Liberal government, Churchill served as President of the Board of Trade, Home
Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty, championing prison reform and workers' social
security. During the First World War, he oversaw the Gallipoli Campaign; after it proved a
disaster, he resigned from government and served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western
Front. In 1917, he returned to government under David Lloyd George as Minister of Munitions,
then as Secretary of State for War and Air, and finally for the Colonies, overseeing the Anglo-

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