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Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940–1945 and 1951–1955; Member of Parliament 1900–1964

United Kingdom · 1874–1965

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Served two terms as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leading the country through most of the Second World War. Held office as Home Secretary, First Lord of the Admiralty and Chancellor of the Exchequer earlier in his career. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.

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At this school I was allowed to learn things which interested me: French, History, lots of Poetry by heart, and above all Riding and Swimming. The impression of those years makes a pleasant picture in my mind, in strong contrast to my earlier schoolday memories.

Recorded Chapter of his autobiography, written at Chartwell in 1930, Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life (Thornton Butterworth, 1930), Project Gutenberg Canada, October 1930 source ↗

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