Ruler · Twentieth century · United Kingdom

Winston Churchill

1874–1965

British prime minister for most of World War II, 1874 to 1965, who led Britain through its darkest years. His speeches in 1940 rallied the country after the fall of France. Voted out in 1945, he returned as prime minister from 1951 to 1955 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.

Facts

Born: 1874, Blenheim Palace.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Winston Churchill
Died: 1965, London.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Winston Churchill
Office: Prime minister 1940 to 1945 and 1951 to 1955.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Winston Churchill
Known for: The wartime speeches of 1940 and the Nobel Prize in Literature (1953).; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Winston Churchill

Images

Winston Churchill inspecting bomb damage, 1940s photograph (Wikimedia Commons)

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