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The Churchill Companion

A Concise Guide to the Life & Times of Winston S. Churchill

Richard M. Langworth, Editor

Published by The Churchill Centre
www.winstonchurchill.org

Copyright

The Churchill Companion: A Concise Guide to the Life and Times of Winston Churchill.
Portions previously published privately by David J. Hatter as Churchill Facts and Winston Churchill: His Politics and Writing, 2002, 2003, 2004.
Copyright The Churchill Centre, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2012. All rights reserved.
Designed by Charlotte Thibault.
Produced by Dragonwyck Publishing Inc., Moultonborough, New Hampshire, USA.
Electronic edition published 2015 by RosettaBooks
ISBN (EPUB): 9780795347238
ISBN (Kindle): 9780795347245
www.RosettaBooks.com

SECOND EDITION, 2013

Cover
Churchill at the time of the 1951 general election, painted by Richard Deane Taylor.
First published on the cover of Colliers, 22 September 1951.
Reproduced by kind permission of the artist.

CHURCHILL CENTRE SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS
by Winston S. Churchill:
The Dream, 1987, 1992
The Chartwell Bulletins, 1989
Shall We Commit Suicide?, 1994
Correspondence with Christine Lewis Conover, 1996
Produced in Association:
Churchill as Peacemaker, James W. Muller, ed., 1997
Connoisseurs Guide to Books, Richard M. Langworth, 1998
Churchills Iron Curtain Speech, James W. Muller, ed., 1999
Bilbiography of Works about Churchill, Curt J. Zoller, 2003
Other Publications:
An Uncomfortable Hero, Caspar W. Weinberger, 1986
Churchills London, Martin Gilbert, 1987
Young Winston in Stamps, Dalton Newfield, 1990
Fifty Year Calendars 19401945, six volumes, edited by John G. Plumpton, 199095
The Boer Conspiracy, John C. Woods, 1992
28 Hyde Park Gate, Churchills London Home, 1992
Orders, Decorations, and Medals, Douglas S. Russell, 2004
Churchill Proceedings, eight volumes, 19892006

Contents

Foreword

1. Timeline: Winston Churchill, His Life & Times - David J. Hatter, Richard M. Langworth & Ronald I. Cohen

2. Books Entirely by Winston Churchill - Ronald I. Cohen

3. Books About: Recommended Books since 1970 - Paul Addison & the Editors of Finest Hour

4. Broadcasts 19381945 - Michael Richards

5. Currency Values since 1874 - Thisismoney.co.uk

6. Drama for Film & Television - Richard M. Langworth

7. Elections 18991959 - Ronald I. Cohen

8. Family Tree - John H. Mather MD

9. Finest Hour Recommended Articles - The Editors

10. Funeral Services & Dignitaries - UK National Archives

11. Glossary of Parliamentary & Political Terms - Paul H. Courtenay

12. Government: Sovereigns, Governments, Prime Ministers - Richard M. Langworth

13. Honors, Orders, Decorations, Medals - Douglas S. Russell

14. Hotels: Favorite Lodgings - Martin Symington

15. Military Commissions, Units & Organization - Douglas S. Russell & Paul H. Courtenay

16. Myths Surrounding Winston Churchill - The Editors

17. Offices Held by Winston Churchill - Ronald I. Cohen, Allen Packwood, Paul H. Courtenay

18. Political Parties in Churchills Time - John Ramsden

19. Residences: City, Country & Holiday - Stefan Buczacki

20. Secretaries: Private, Parliamentary & Personal - David J. Hatter

21. Sovereigns, Nobility & Prime Ministers - Paul H. Courtenay

22. Summit Conferences in World War II - Anna Dunham

23. Thoroughbreds: Churchills Horses - Katherine Thomson

24. Travel by Sea 18951963 - Christopher H. Sterling

25. Travel to North America - Richard M. Langworth

26. Travel in World War II - Christopher H. Sterling

27. Visitors Book at Chartwell - David J. Hatter

28. The Churchill Centre

Sources & Acknowledgments

Foreword

The Churchill Companion

The late David Hatter, a longtime member of The Churchill Centre United Kingdom, was in his later years a steward and tour guide at Chartwell, Sir Winston Churchills home from 1922 to the end of his life. To answer the countless questions frequently asked by visitors to Chartwell, he compiled and self-published a booklet of ready-reference information, Churchill: His Politics and Writing (2002), reprinted as Churchill Facts (200304). Before his death Mr. Hatter vested all future rights to his material with The Churchill Centre, hoping it would be republishedwhich it finally has, in a new and greatly expanded format. We only regret that he did not live long enough to see the final result of his vision.

The chapters begin with Mr. Hatters outline of Churchills life, combined with the individually dated timelines from my book, Churchill By Himself (2008), republished as Churchill in His Own Words (2012). But thats just the beginning.

As the contents opposite indicate, we have added or expanded on David Hatters content with material from the pages of our quarterly journal Finest Hour, chiefly the Ampersand column, which we usually devote to ready-reference facts and tabulations that make it easier to know what Churchill was doing, when and whyor to understand the background, including British parliamentary terms that may not be familiar outside Britain. Mr. Hatter himself drafted chapters on Churchills staff and secretaries and the Chartwell visitors book.

The purpose of this work, which also has a print counterpart, is to convey ready-reference information one normally has to search for on the web or in publications for the use of students, scholars and Churchillians of all types and ages. Its purpose is information, not expansive introductions, so we begin on the next page. Acknowledgments and author credits are at the end.

Richard M. Langworth
Moultonborough, New Hampshire
29 August 2012

1. Timeline

Winston Churchill, His Life & Times

David J. Hatter, Richard M. Langworth & Ronald I. Cohen

David Hatters Churchill Facts often summarized a years events rather than by individual dates: these summaries have been preserved in italics, and supplemented by the timeline in Richard Langworths Churchill by Himself, 2008 (Churchill in His Own Words, 2012). Ronald Cohen added key additions and corrections for this second edition. Among other uses, this chapter offers background to the events during which Churchills speeches were delivered and books and articles written.

1873

15 August: Jennie Jerome, daughter of Leonard and Clara Jerome of New York City, meets Lord Randolph Churchill at the Cowes Regatta, Isle of Wight.

1874

15 April: Marriage of Jennie and Randolph, British Embassy, Paris.

30 November: Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill born prematurely at Blenheim Palace. His nurse is Elizabeth Everest, who he will call Woomany. His grandfather, the Seventh Duke of Marlborough, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland under Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

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