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Churchill (RANDOLPH HENRY SPENCER LORD)

RANDOLPH HENRY SPENCER, LORD, second son of the sixth Duke of Marlborough; born Feb. 13, 1849. Having entered Parliament in 1874, by 1884 he had risen to the position of a recognized leader of the Conservative party, and in 1885 became Indian secretary in Lord Salisbury's government. On the defeat of Gladstone's Irish Bill in 1886 Churchill became leader of the House of Commons and Chancellor of the Exchequer, posts which he unexpectedly resigned in December, 1886. He died in London, Jan. 24, 1895.