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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on November 30, 1874, at Blenheim Palaceâa home given by Queen Anne to Churchill's ancestor, the Duke of Marlborough.He was the eldest son of Lord Randolph Churchill, a Tory Democrat (a British political party) who achieved early success as a rebel in his party.he English statesman and author Sir Winston Churchill led Britain during World War II (1939â45) and is often described as the savior of his country. Sir Winston Churchill's exact place in the political history of the twentieth century is, and will continue to be, a subject of debate.
Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, a writer (as Winston S. Churchill), and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his overall, lifetime body of work. In 1963, he was the first of only eight people to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.