Churchill
Churchill names 7 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Churchill RT. HON. WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER, an English statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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 Cuba, and afterward served in India in of the Malakand and Tirah campaigns 1898, besides being present at the battle same year. of Omdurman on the Nile the 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 the capture of relief of Ladysmith, and Con- Pretoria. In 1900 he was elected servative Member for Oldham, but soon he afterward became a Liberal. In 1906 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.
Churchill MARLBOROUGH, an American soldier
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MARLBOROUGH, an American soldier, born in Andover, Mass., in 1878. He graduated from Harvard University in 1900. In 1901 he was appointed 2d lieutenant of the Artillery Corps. He became captain in 1911 and major in 1917. In the same year he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the National Army. He was promoted to be National National brigadier-general of the Army in August of the same year. From 1912 to 1914 he was instructor at the School of Fire for Field Artillery. He served as military observer with the French armies in the field, in 1916-1917, and from April to June of the same year was executive officer of the American Military Mission to Paris. He became a member of the general staff of the A. E. F. and director of military service. He was acting chief of staff of the Army Artillery of the 1st Army, in 1918. He returned to the United States in June of the same year and was appointed chief of the military intelligence bureau, and assistant chief of of staff and director of military intelligence. In 1918-1919 he was on special duty with the American Peace Commission. He received the Distinguished Service Cross and decorations from France and Belgium.
Churchill RANDOLPH HENRY SPENCER, LORD
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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.
Churchill WINSTON, an American author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WINSTON, an American author; born in St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 10, 1871. He was graduated from the United States Naval Academy cademy in 1894, and became an editor of the "Army and Navy Journal" the same year. After serving as managing editor of the "Cosmopolitan" magazine, he turned his attention to fiction, achieving great success with his novels "The Celebrity," "Richard Carvel," "The Crisis," "The Crossing," "Coniston," "Mrs. Crewe's Career," "The Inside of the Cup," "A Far Country," and "The Dwelling Place of Light."
Churchill CHARLES, an English satirical poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES, an English satirical poet; born in Westminster, in February, 1731. He won his fame with "The Rosciad," a satire upon the actors of the time, in which only Garrick and some few popular actresses are praised. His capacity for ridicule was so great that "The Ghost," "The Farewell," "The Conference," "The Author," and "The Prophecy of Famine," proved exceedingly popular. He is almost without a peer in his special field. He died in Boulogne, Nov. 4, 1764.
Churchill WINSTON LEONARD, Colonial Secretary in the cabinet of Lloyd George to 1922
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WINSTON LEONARD, Colonial Secretary in the cabinet of Lloyd George to 1922. He supported Lloyd George in the general election of November, 1922, and was defeated in his contest for re-election to Parliament.
Churchill JOHN, Duke of Marlborough
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, Duke of Marlborough. See MARLBOROUGH.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's compiled this page in 1921, the seven Churchills stood in a very different order of fame. The American novelist Winston Churchill of St. Louis, author of Richard Carvel and The Crisis, was then the better-known of the two writing Winstons, which is why the Englishman had agreed to sign himself Winston S. Churchill; the novelist published no more fiction after 1917 and is now almost entirely forgotten, while the English statesman, whom Collier's leaves defeated at the polls in 1922 and blamed for the Dardanelles, became Prime Minister in 1940 and again in 1951, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953, and died in 1965. Lord Randolph is now read chiefly as his father, and Marlborough Churchill, the Harvard-trained artilleryman, is remembered only by historians of American military intelligence, which he directed at the end of the First World War. Charles Churchill the satirist has held his modest place: still anthologised for The Rosciad, though few would now call him, as Collier's does, almost without a peer.
Written for this edition, 2026.