Winston Churchill - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1953
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Winston Churchill

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1953
for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English, French
date of birth
11/30/1874
place of birth
Blenheim Palace, Woodstock
date of death
1/24/1965
place of death
Hyde Park Gate, London
Lived
90 years

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position held
  • member of the 27th Parliament of the United Kingdom
    • start time: 10/1/1900
    • end time: 4/30/1904
  • Chancellor of the University of Bristol
    • end time: 1965
    • start time: 1929
  • Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
    • end time: 1/24/1965
    • start time: 10/28/1941
  • member of the 42nd Parliament of the United Kingdom
    • end time: 9/25/1964
    • start time: 10/8/1959
  • member of the 41st Parliament of the United Kingdom
    • end time: 9/18/1959
    • start time: 5/26/1955
  • Leader of the Conservative Party
    • end time: 4/6/1955
    • start time: 11/9/1940
  • Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
    • end time: 4/5/1955
    • start time: 10/26/1951
  • member of the 40th Parliament of the United Kingdom
    • end time: 5/6/1955
    • start time: 10/25/1951
  • Secretary of State for Defence
    • end time: 7/26/1945
    • start time: 5/10/1940
  • Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
    • end time: 7/26/1945
    • start time: 5/10/1940
  • member of the 38th Parliament of the United Kingdom
    • start time: 7/5/1945
    • end time: 2/3/1950
  • Leader of the House of Commons
    • end time: 2/19/1942
    • start time: 5/10/1940
  • Leader of the Opposition
    • start time: 7/26/1945
    • end time: 10/26/1951
  • member of the 37th Parliament of the United Kingdom
    • end time: 6/15/1945
    • start time: 11/14/1935
  • member of the 39th Parliament of the United Kingdom
    • end time: 10/5/1951
    • start time: 2/23/1950
  • Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
    • end time: 11/26/1951
    • start time: 8/13/1949
  • Secretary of State for Defence
    • end time: 3/1/1952
    • start time: 10/28/1951
  • member of the 27th Parliament of the United Kingdom
    • start time: 4/30/1904
    • end time: 1/8/1906
  • member of the 36th Parliament of the United Kingdom
    • start time: 10/27/1931
    • end time: 10/25/1935
  • member of the 35th Parliament of the United Kingdom
    • end time: 10/7/1931
    • start time: 5/30/1929
  • First Lord of the Admiralty
    • end time: 5/11/1940
    • start time: 9/3/1939
  • colonel
    • start time: 1/24/1940
  • member of the 28th Parliament of the United Kingdom
    • end time: 1/10/1910
    • start time: 5/9/1908
  • Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
    • end time: 11/25/1915
    • start time: 5/25/1915
  • member of the 28th Parliament of the United Kingdom
    • end time: 4/16/1908
    • start time: 1/12/1906
  • Home Secretary
    • start time: 2/19/1910
    • end time: 10/24/1911
  • member of the 30th Parliament of the United Kingdom
    • start time: 12/3/1910
    • end time: 11/25/1918
  • First Lord of the Admiralty
    • start time: 10/24/1911
    • end time: 5/25/1915
  • member of the 29th Parliament of the United Kingdom
    • end time: 11/28/1910
    • start time: 1/15/1910
  • rector
    • start time: 1914
    • end time: 1918
  • Secretary of State for War
    • start time: 1/10/1919
    • end time: 2/13/1921
  • Secretary of State for Air
    • end time: 2/13/1921
    • start time: 1/10/1919
  • Secretary of State for the Colonies
    • end time: 10/19/1922
    • start time: 2/13/1921
  • member of the 31st Parliament of the United Kingdom
    • start time: 12/14/1918
    • end time: 10/26/1922
  • Minister of Munitions
    • end time: 1/10/1919
    • start time: 7/17/1917
  • Chancellor of the Exchequer
    • end time: 6/4/1929
    • start time: 11/6/1924
  • member of the 34th Parliament of the United Kingdom
    • end time: 5/10/1929
    • start time: 10/29/1924
  • member of parliament
  • Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
member of
  • Society of the Cincinnati
    • end time: 1965
    • start time: 1952
  • Order of the Garter
    • end time: 1965
    • start time: 1953
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1946
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1951
  • Royal Society of London
educated at
  • Royal Military College, Sandhurst
  • Stoke Brunswick School
  • St George's School, Ascot
  • Harrow School
notable work
  • The Second World War
  • A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
  • A Traveller in War-Time
occupation
  • minister
  • politician
  • artist
  • historian
  • painter
  • biographer
  • military officer
  • journalist
  • head of government
  • autobiographer
  • statesperson
  • writer
  • screenwriter
  • member of parliament
work location
  • London
employer
  • University of Edinburgh
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