Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

He was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was an officer in the British Army and historian, writer,artist. Also he  won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1953.

Churchill was born into the family of the Dukes of Marlborough, a branch of the Spencer family. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a charismatic politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer; his mother, Jennie Jerome, was an American socialite.Churchill's father, Lord Randolph Churchill, the third son of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, was a politician; and his mother, Lady Randolph Churchill (née Jennie Jerome) was the daughter of American millionaire Leonard Jerome.In 1886 he suffered a severe pneumonia. Poor health and questionable success in school prompted parents not to send him to Eton College, where for many generations learned men of the sort of Marlboro, and in the least prestigious harrow.