Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

At that time the Foreign Office, working in London, was distinct from the Diplomatic Service , working abroad. It was not until after the First World War that Owen O'Malley became a diplomat overseas. He...

EL had a close relationship with her son Oliver , who consulted with her on every aspect of life, every detail of [his] career after his father died. He went on to become a...

UT later said of her marriage: Almost before I knew it I was grown-up. Ernest Troubridge, who came from a distinguished naval family, was a friend of the Taylor family and a widower in...

According to Percy Lubbock , MC and her sisters entertained often and were charming and successful hostesses. Mary was nevertheless said to be a shy and modest woman who, while she found writing tedious, enjoyed...

Joseph Chamberlain and Winston Churchill were among the many visitors who were received at Abinger by the Lugards.

Through these social engagements, KCT came into contact with several significant figures of the day. At a dinner given by Colonel George Harvey , for instance, she probably met Mr and Mrs Winston Churchill ...

Following her early conquest of Tennyson , AM went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan , Aubrey Beardsley (while he...

On the glamorous idea of touring with a show in Europe, MA writes that her images of London came from Dickens and Winston Churchill , her images of Paris from Guy de Maupassant , and...

This work was an extension of a declaration released by the press on 31 January 1937. In that declaration, signatories including the Duchess of Atholl , Winston Churchill , David Lloyd George , Robert Cecil

The production directly affected government policy: Winston Churchill (then Home Secretary) saw the play, and in a conversation with JG agreed to apply the punishment of solitary confinement more sparingly, and for shorter periods.

The head of the United States Office of War Information called for this movie to be immediately and widely released. Roosevelt , already an admirer of the book, joined in the rapturous reception of the...

It is set long ago in 1945, when all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions. It is a time, not quite peace and not quite war, between two armistice celebrations...

She began her writing career as a gossip columnist for the Daily Express in 1923. She was soon noticed by her first employer, Lord Beaverbrook , and by his friends Winston Churchill , F. E. Smith

BC shared her brothers' strong endorsement of Britain's active role in the Second World War (all three were acquaintanced with Winston Churchill ). She threw herself into war work. Welfare Officers were charged with everything...

Living in London, CSJ became by 1899 secretary to Lady Randolph Churchill and her son Winston . She was at this point also beginning work on her first novel.