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CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer was born on October 10, 1940. Parents: the late Hon.Randolph S. Churchill, Member of the Order of the British Empire and the late Honorary Mrs Averell Harriman (née Digby).
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Born at Chequers as the bombs fell in 1940, the grandson of Britain's wartime leader, Winston S. Churchill's childhood included Blitz-torn London as well as sunnier peacetime days at his grandfather's Chartwell home. His memories include his father, Randolph Churchill, brilliant journalist but failed politician; and his mother, the sparkling centre of a distinguished circle of friends. But primarily he shows us Winston, the most famous Englishman of the century as a loving and playful grandfather, and in hitherto unpublished family letters. Embarking on a career as a war correspondent he covered conflicts in Yemen, the Congo and Borneo. He participated in airstrikes in Vietnam and reported the Middle East War of 1967. An ardent pilot, he gives us an account of his 20,000-mile flight in a single-engine plane around Africa, of meetings with Emperor Haile Selassie, and of eating crocodile-meat with Albert Schweitzer in the equatorial jungle. In this book Winston S.Churchill, himself elected to Parliament as the youngest Conservative MP in 1970, combines family memories and the adventures of a young man eager to see action and the world. Winston S. Churchill is the author of three previous books - "First Journey", "The Six-Day War" (with Randolph Churchil) and "Defending the West".
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CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer was born on October 10, 1940. Parents: the late Hon.Randolph S. Churchill, Member of the Order of the British Empire and the late Honorary Mrs Averell Harriman (née Digby).
Eton; Christ Church, Oxford, Master of Arts (Hons), Modern History. Spoken languages: french.
Parly, candidate, 1967. Memberof Parliament, since 1970. PPSto Minister of Housing, 1970-1972.
Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1972-1973. Secretary, Conservative Backbench Foreign Affairs Committee, 1973-1976. Opposition Front Bench Spokesman on Defence, 1976-1978.
Since 1977; Vice-Chairman, Conservative Parliamentary Defence Committee, 1978-1983. Exec, member, 1922 Committee, 1979-1985. And Treasurer, 1987-1988.
Conservative Co-ordinator for Multilateral Disarmament and Defence, 198284. Member. Defence Select Committee, since 1983. Author, journalist. War correspondent, Yemen, Congo, Angola, 1963.
Radio presenter, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1964-1965. Borneo and Vietnam, 1966, Middle East, 1967, Chicago Democratic Convention and Czechoslovakia, 1968. Roving correspondent, Times, 1969-1970.
Special correspondent in China, Observer, 1972. Special correspondent in Portugal, Daily Telegraph, 1975. Numerous lecture tours in USA and Canada.
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C of E
Lloyds member; member, Institute, of Journalists. Clubs: National Benevolent Fund for the Aged (trustee). English Speaking Union (former Governor).
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (trustee). British Technion Society (Vice-Pres.). Trafford Park Industrial Council (Pres.).
Spouse Mary Caroline (née d’Erlanger), 1964. Children: four.