This policy, criticized by many parties, so much so that it will then lead the party, stiffened in its weaknesses and its arrogance, to the defeat in the elections of 1906 by the liberals, finds Churchill, who fights for free trade, in full disagreement. 1591.Īt that time the leader of the conservative current unionist liberals, led by Joseph Chamberlain, was implementing a political strategy characterized, in the economic field, by the so-called Imperial Preference, which aimed at maintaining the British imperialist strategy through a strong protectionism. On May 24, 1901, he began Freemasonry in the Studholme London Lodge No. Although he has modeled his personality on the figure of his father, he is not slow to express a different sensitivity in the social and political field. After a first failure, he managed to enter Parliament at the age of 26, in 1900, when he was elected parliamentary for the Conservative Party on his second attempt at the college of Oldham. Captured by the Boers near Port Natal, he is incarcerated in a concentration camp from where he manages to escape unexpectedly and, after a long escape, thanks also to the help of a fellow countryman, John Hard, manager of mine, manages to reach, transvestite as a priest, the city of Lourenço Marques, in the Portuguese Mozambique.Īt that time the extra-European continents were very popular because their fame and career depended exclusively on border posts.įrom his correspondence from the Afghan war of 1897 will be published a book (The Story of the Malakand Field Force, 1898), but the true fame will come from his participation, as Ussaro, at the battle of Omdurman (September 1898) on the lower course of the Nile, in which the English defeat the Dervishes and gain control of Sudan.Ĭhurchill feels ready to start a political career. Here he participates as a correspondent of the Morning Post to the second war against the Boers, also participating directly in the fighting. Winston decides to spend a few years as a correspondent between Cuba, India and South Africa. His father wanted to start his career in the military, while Churchill shows considerable talent for writing. Winston studied at Harrow and, in 1893, was admitted to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. The drama experienced by his father will influence the beginnings of Churchill's political life, which will try to avenge him.ĭescending from the Dukes of Marlborough, Winston Churchill is linked by a distant kinship to Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales (1961-1997), consort until 1996 of Charles, Prince of Wales, son of Queen Elizabeth II. Lord Randolph does not recover from this political injury and, due to the onset of a serious illness, he fails prematurely. In this capacity Sir Randolph Churchill fights for the reduction of military expenses and, when Premier Salisbury rejects his requests, he decides to present his resignation, hoping, wrongly, that they be rejected. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill was the third son of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough and was a prominent figure of the British Conservative Party (Tory), in 1885 he led the Secretariat of State for India and in 1886 he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer (Minister of Finance). The mother is the American Jennie Jerome, daughter of the owner of the New York Times. Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock (Oxfordshire), November 30, 1874.
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