Clementine Churchill Clementine's biological father was Capt. William George "Bay" Middleton, a noted horseman; Mary Soames, Clementine's youngest child, believed this. However, Clementine's biographer, Joan Hardwick, has surmised (due in part to Sir Henry Hozier's reputed sterility) that all Lady Blanche's "Hozier" children were actually fathered by her sister's husband, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale (1837–1916), better known as a grandfather of the famous Mitford sisters of the 1920s. Whatever her true paternity, Clementine is recorded as being the daughter of Lady Blanche and Sir Henry. In the summer of 1899, when Clementine was fourteen, her mother moved the family to
USS Winston S. Churchill in the Gulf of Aden. After attempts to repair the skiff's engines failed "Winston S. Churchill" took the vessel under tow towards Somalia. On 27 September the skiff sank when the 85 passengers rushed to one side of the skiff during a food delivery causing the vessel to capsize. "Winston S. Churchill" was able to rescue 61 of the passengers and continued towards Somalia on 28 September. Her homeport is currently Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. She is currently a part of Carrier Strike Group 12 "The shield features an inescutcheon of his ancestral coat of arms and the cross of