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Churchill (RT HON WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER)

RT. HON. WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER, an English statesman, born at London, Nov. 30, 1874, son of Lord Randolph Churchill. He was WINSTON L. S. CHURCHILL educated at Eton and Sandhurst, and entered the army in 1895. He was correspondent with the Spanish forces in CHURCHILL RIVER Cuba, and afterward served in India in the Malakand and Tirah campaigns of 1898, besides being present at the battle of Omdurman on the Nile the same year.

In the Boer War he acted as correspondent for the "Morning Post," and was taken prisoner, but escaped from Pretoria. He was present at Spion Kop, op, the relief of Ladysmith, and the capture of Pretoria. In 1900 he was elected Conservative Member for Oldham, but soon afterward became a Liberal. In 1906 he was appointed Under Secretary for the Colonies, and in 1908 President of the Board of Trade. In 1910 he became Home Secretary, and in 1911 First Lord of the Admiralty, serving until 1915. In this office incurred considerable criticism because of the fiasco at the Dardanelles and of the sending of British forces to Antwerp. In 1916 he retired temporarily from politics and joined the British troops on the western front. In 1917 he became Minister of Munitions and in 1919 Secretary of State for War and Air. He was the author of "The Malakand Field Force"; "The River War"; "London to Ladysmith"; "Ian Hamilton's March"; "Lord Randolph Churchill"; "My African Journey"; "Liberalism and the Social Problem"; etc.