Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born in 1874, November 30th in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. He was born into a family of the Dukes of Marlborough, a piece of the Spencer family. Randolph Churchill, His father, was a charismatic politician, who had served as a Chancellor of the Exchequer. Jennie Jerome, the mother of Winston, she was a American Socialite. Winston Churchill has a lateral lisp, it had continued throughout his career. At the age of two until six living in Dublin, right where his grandfather had Viceroy and employed Churchills brother, John Strange Churchill, who this time was born in Ireland. Winstons earliest time in education occurred in Dublin, where they were trying to teach him to read, to write and also to arithmetic. Adding with the limited contact with his family, he started to become very close with his nanny who he called Old Woom. Churchill being the independent and rebellious child he was, generally had a poor academic record in school. He was educated at three different independent schools, which were: Brunswick School in Hove, St. Georges School in Ascot, And Harrow School in April 17th 1888. After weeks of join the school, he went and joined the Harrow Rifle Corps. Winston Churchill at the age of 7 Winstons Adult/Teen life
When the young Winston Churchill was attending Harrow School, he was put on the list that was under the Ss as Spencer Churchill, who was at the time, our little Winston, he was a small stocky boy with red hair, he spoke with a stutter and lisp. He did well in the Mathematics in his Harrow he was shown and recognised as being the best in his division. During his first year in he was put on the top division for the history subject. When the red head entered the school he had the lowest grades in the lowest of the classes, and so he remained in that position. He never did make it to the upper school because of him never studying for the classics. While at the age of 18, as he was visiting Lady Wimborne, who was his aunt, who also lived in Bournemouth. Churchill had fallen from a bridge which was 29 feet tall, which had left him unconscious for three days and also bedridden for the months. On September of 1908 on the date of 12th, he and Clementine Hozier got married in St. Margarets, Westminster. After he had five children, Diana, Randolph, Sarah, Marigold and Mary. Winston with Fiance Military service
Once Winston left Harrow in 1893, he had just applied to attend the Royal Military College. As he had tried three times but yet failed all three times, but before eventually passing the entrance exam. He had entered to be trained for the cavalry rather than the infantry because of the grade was lower, also he wasnt required to learn mathematics, which he disliked. He finally graduated eight out of a class of 150 others in December 1894. But although he now could have transferred to a infantry regiment, which was his father wish for him, he remained in the cavalry and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 4th Queens own Hussars in 1895, 20th of February. During 1941, Churchill received the honour of being appointed Regimental Colonel of the 4th Hussars. The honour was increased after the Second World War, he was appointed as Colonel in Chief, but this was usually reserved for members of the royal family. At his pay as being a second lieutenant in the 4th Hussars, which was 300 euros, but he believed that he needed around 500 euros further just to support a style of life. Churchill in Military uniform, 1865 First World War
On October 5th 1914, Winston left to go to Antwerp, which the Belgian government were proposed to evacuate. The Royal Marine Brigade was on the way there at Churchills urgings the 1st and 2nd Naval Brigades were also committed. As he had returned on October 7th, but Antwerp fell on the 10th of October, 2,500 British men, a lot barely trained, were taken prisoner or interned, neutral in the Netherlands. He was attacked for some squandering resources by a week. He also was involved with the tank development, which was financed from the Navy budget.