Person:Randolph Spencer-Churchill (4)

Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill
d.24 Jan 1895 London, England
Facts and Events
Name[1][4] Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill
Gender Male
Birth[1] 13 Feb 1849 Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England(or 3 Wilton Terrace, London?)
Marriage 15 Apr 1874 Paris, France(at the British embassy; her 1st husband)
to Jeanette Jerome
Residence? Woodstock, Oxfordshire, EnglandBlenheim Palace
Death[4] 24 Jan 1895 London, England50 Grosvenor Square
Burial[2] St. Martin's Churchyard, Bladon, Oxfordshire, England
Reference Number? Q314773?


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Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill (13 February 1849 – 24 January 1895) was a British statesman. Churchill was a Tory radical and coined the term 'Tory democracy'. He inspired a generation of party managers, created the National Union of the Conservative Party, and broke new ground in modern budgetary presentations, attracting admiration and criticism from across the political spectrum. His most acerbic critics were in his own party, among his closest friends; but his disloyalty to Lord Salisbury was the beginning of the end of what could have been a glittering career. His elder son was Winston Churchill, who wrote a biography of him in 1906.

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References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Lord Randolph Churchill, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. Randolph Spencer Churchill, in Find A Grave.
  3.   Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
  4. 4.0 4.1 MacColl, Gail, and Carol McD. Wallace. To Marry an English Lord. (New York: Workman Publishing, 1989).

    A riveting speaker in Parliament, Randolph rose to Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons. He was widely expected to become prime minister but resigned from government suddenly; he suffered from syphilis, which drove him mad and eventually killed him in 1895.