The 50th Anniversary of the death of Sir Winston Churchill.
Tohid Ismail
On the night of his 1945 election loss, Churchill’s doctor Lord Moran
commiserated with him on the “ingratitude” of the British public, to which
Churchill replied “I wouldn't call it that. They have had a very hard time.”
Winston Churchill was born in 1874 in the aristocratic household of the Dukes of
Marlborough, part of the Spencer Family; his father, Lord Randolph Churchill
had served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Having attended Harrow School,
where Churchill was known for being mischievous and troublesome, he joined
Sandhurst Royal Military College, after finding education was not ‘his cup of
tea’. He was eventually posted in British India and often wrote for newspapers
back home in Britain, portraying his love for the English language and
journalism, which he had developed since his lonely days at Harrow, where he
tirelessly sent letters to his mother, who seldom replied and starved him of
maternal love. Indeed, he felt that because his father had died young, so would
he, and thus wanted to waste little time in making an impact on the world.
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