Winston Churchill 1924 as a Major. On 24 May 1901 he was initiated into Freemasonry at Studholme Lodge No.1591, which at the time met in the Regent Masonic Hall at the Cafe Royal, London, passed to the Second Degree on 19 July, and raised to the Third Degree on 25 March 1902. Churchill met his future wife, Clementine Hozier, in 1904 at a ball in Crewe House, home of the Earl of Crewe and Crewe's wife Margaret Primrose (daughter of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, and Hannah Rothschild). In March 1908, they met again at a dinner party hosted by Lady
International Churchill Society appreciative—those who can look at him, warts and all." The most recent patron of the International Churchill Society was The Lady Soames LG DBE from 1983 until her death in 2014. She was youngest daughter of Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine Churchill. From 1970 to 1979, the patron was Lord Mountbatten of Burma. The Society's offices are located in Washington, D.C. at the National Churchill Library and Center (NCLC). The predecessor organizations were the Winston S. Churchill Study Unit (1968), a chapter of the American Topical Association, and The Churchill Centre. In 1995, responding to an appeal by Lady