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2 - The Inheritance of Winston Churchill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2023

By
David Lough
Edited by
Allen Packwood
Allen Packwood
Affiliation:
Churchill College, Cambridge
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Summary

The chapter explores the background to Churchill’s upbringing and its bearing on his future career. It introduces and contrasts his American Jerome lineage with his aristocratic British Marlborough ancestry before describing the courtship and early married life of Jennie Jerome and Lord Randolph Churchill. Winston’s education is placed in the context of the meteoric rise and sudden collapse of his father’s political career, the family’s financial difficulties and Lord Randolph’s failing health. The chapter finishes with an analysis of Churchill’s family inheritance and concludes that its importance was more social and political than financial.

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ancestryBlenheimfamilyfinanceHarrowinheritanceJeromeMarlboroughSandhurst
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The Cambridge Companion to Winston Churchill , pp. 28 - 48
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Cannadine, D., The Aristocratic Adventurer (London: Penguin, 2005)Google Scholar
Churchill, R. S. [OB], Winston S. Churchill, vol. 1, Youth 1874–1900 (London: Heinemann, 1966)Google Scholar
Churchill, W. S., My Early Life (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1930)Google Scholar
Foster, R., Lord Randolph Churchill (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981)Google Scholar
Green, D., The Churchills of Blenheim (London: Constable, 1984)Google Scholar
Leslie, A, The Fabulous Leonard Jerome (London: Hutchinson, 1954)Google Scholar
Leslie, A., Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill (London: Hutchinson, 1969)Google Scholar
Lough, D., No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money (London: Head of Zeus, 2015)Google Scholar
Lough, D., Darling Winston: Forty Years of Letters between Churchill and His Mother (London: Head of Zeus, 2018)Google Scholar
Sebba, A., Jennie Churchill, Winston’s American Mother (London: John Murray, 2007)Google Scholar

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