Taking charge of the British defence was not any General but Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, the civilian minister for the Royal Navy. Churchill, later to become one of Britain’s ...

Dominating those meetings as the war heats up is the first lord of the admiralty, Winston Churchill, at the time a member of Asquith’s party, the Liberals. (A few years later, Churchill will ...

Mr. Stevenson visits South Africa, where in 1899 Churchill was imprisoned and then escaped from captivity in the Boer War. He ...

Such hazing presumably toughened Pamela for marriage in 1939 to Randolph Churchill, the boorish, scandal-pocked son of the ...

On 1 October 1939 Winston Churchill gave his first wartime broadcast, on the recently created BBC Home Service. Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, delivered his assessment of the first ...

He had a long and varied career, which saw him become the last Viceroy of India and the First Sea Lord and ... due to being a favourite of Winston Churchill. Lord Mountbatten was seen to have ...

One of the most important statesmen in world history, Sir Winston Churchill also pursued the ... It was composed circa 1948, when Churchill visited his long-time political friend Lord Beaverbrook, who ...

This is where he speaks to The House about his plans for the Department for Business and Trade, which is located in the Old Admiralty ... he says were made by Winston Churchill himself when ...

was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of World War I Winston Churchill, first lord of the Admiralty, memorandum to Prime Minister Sir Edward Grey and Lord Kitchener (September 5, 1914); ...