Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (Blenheim Castle, Oxfordshire, 1874–London, 1965), from a Victorian aristocratic family, graduated from Royal Military College. Having served in India, he taught the anglobóer war as a war correspondent for the Morning Post newspaper. In 1900 he was elected deputy for the Conservative Party, which he left in 1904 to join the Liberal Party. He held, among others, the positions of Minister of Commerce (1908), Minister of the Interior (1911) and Minister of Finance (1924).

The big leap in his political career came in 1940, when he was elected prime minister in place of Neville Chamberlain. After losing the election in 1945 to labour, he regained the head of government during the period 1951-1955. After resigning that year, he devoted himself to painting and literature, a field in which he excelled with works such as Step by Step: from twilight of peace to the glare of victory, Blood, Sweat and Tears, The Secrets of War, Thoughts and Adventures and Savrola.

In 1953 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.