Sir Winston Churchill - Eccleston Square, London, UK
N 51° 29.482 W 000° 08.715
30U E 698175 N 5708333
This plaque is on a house on the south west side of Eccleston Square that is to the south of Victoria railway station. Churchill was, arguably, one of the United Kingdom's greatest statesmen.
Waymark Code: WMGN65
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/23/2013
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The plaque, that
at he time of observation was in better condition that the property upon which
it is mounted, due to refurbishment, reads:
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Sir Winston Churchill lived
here 1909 - 1913
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The Nobel
Prize website tells us about Churchill:
"The Right
Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965), the son of Lord
Randolph Churchill and an American mother, was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst.
After a brief but eventful career in the army, he became a Conservative Member
of Parliament in 1900. He held many high posts in Liberal and Conservative
governments during the first three decades of the century. At the outbreak of
the Second World War, he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty - a post
which he had earlier held from 1911 to 1915. In May, 1940, he became Prime
Minister and Minister of Defence and remained in office until 1945. He took over
the premiership again in the Conservative victory of 1951 and resigned in 1955.
However, he remained a Member of Parliament until the general election of 1964,
when he did not seek re-election. Queen Elizabeth II conferred on Churchill the
dignity of Knighthood and invested him with the insignia of the Order of the
Garter in 1953. Among the other countless honours and decorations he received,
special mention should be made of the honorary citizenship of the United States
which President Kennedy conferred on him in 1963.
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, he published his only novel, Savrola, and,
six years later, his first major work, the biography of his father, Lord
Randolph Churchill. His other famous biography, 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). After his retirement from office, Churchill wrote a
History of the English-speaking Peoples (4 vols., 1956-58). His magnificent
oratory survives in a dozen volumes of speeches, among them The Unrelenting
Struggle (1942), The Dawn of Liberation (1945), and Victory
(1946).
Churchill, a
gifted amateur painter, wrote Painting as a Pastime (1948). An autobiographical
account of his youth, My Early Life, appeared in
1930."