Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill

• --Politician, Writer and Painter

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Dont be content with things as they are. The
earth is yours and the fullness thereof.
--from my early life by WSC
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Politician

• Sir Winston Spencer Churchill (1874-1965), was
  educated at Harrow and Sandhurst.
• Conservative Member of Parliament in 1900.
• First Lord of the Admiralty, 1911 to 1915 and
  Second World War.
• Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, in May,
  1940, remained in office until 1945. Took over
  the premiership again in the Conservative victory
  of 1951 and resigned in 1955.
• HonorsThe dignity of Knighthood and the insignia
  of the Order of the Garter conferred by Queen
  Elizabeth II in 1953. And the honorary
  citizenship of the United States conferred by
  President Kennedy in 1963.

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Writer

• Churchill's literary career began with campaign
  reports The Story of the Malakand Field Force
  (1898) and The River War (1899), an account of
  the campaign in the Sudan and the Battle of
  Omdurman.
• In 1900, his only novel, Savrola, was published.
• six years later, the biography of his father,
  Lord Randolph Churchill, the life of his great
  ancestor, the Duke of Marlborough, was published
  in four volumes between 1933 and 1938.
• Churchill's history of the First World War
  appeared in four volumes under the title of The
  World Crisis (1923-29) his memoirs of the Second
  World War ran to six volumes (1948-1953/54).

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• After his retirement from office, Churchill wrote
  a History of the English-speaking Peoples (4
  vols., 1956-58).
• The Unrelenting Struggle (1942), The Dawn of
  Liberation (1945), and Victory (1946)are his
  magnificent speeches.
• In recognition of this historical studies he
  received the Nobel Price for Literature in 1953.

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A Gifted Amateur Painter

• Churchill, a gifted amateur painter, wrote
  Painting as a Pastime (1948). More than half of
  Churchill's paintings were produced during the
  1930s, over a period of some 45 years and in more
  than 500 paintings.
• Winston Churchill was 41 when he first picked up
  a brush to paint. The year was 1915. His
  political career was in shambles. During the
  summer, he and his wife Clementine rented a small
  farm in Surrey. One of their frequent visitors
  was his brother Jack and his wife Goonie. Goonie
  loved sketching in watercolours. Encouraged by
  his sister-in-law, he borrowed her brush and
  tried painting a few strokes. So began the rest
  of his life as a painter.

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• He won his first prize in 1925, for a painting
  entitled, Winter Sunshine, Chartwell.
• Between the two world wars, he began to enjoy
  some acclaim as an amateur painter.
• High profile shows in England and the US
  followed, with one of his paintings bringing at
  auction a price of 39,200. Twelve years after
  his death in 1965, one of his paintings sold for
  148,000 pounds.

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• In 1965, at the age of 90 he died of a stroke.
  His death marked the end of an era in British
  History and he was given a state funeral and was
  buried in St. Martin's Churchyard, Bladon,
  Oxfordshire. During all of his life he had served
  no less than six British monarchs Queen
  Victoria, Edward VII, George IV, Edward VIII,
  George VI and Elisabeth II.