Leadership Presentation : Winston Churchill

LEADERSHIP PRESENTATION : WINSTON CHURCHILL

His childhood

Sir Winston Spencer Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace on November 30th, 1874 and died at Hyde Park Gate in London on January 24 1965.

His father was Randolph Churchill, a Conservative politician.

His mother was Jennie Jerome, the daughter of Leonard Jerome, a New Yorker businessman.

He was educated at three independent schools:

* St George's School in Ascot, Berkshire

* Brunswick School in Hove, near Brighton

* Harrow School from where his military career began.

As a Politician

* Conservative Member of Parliament in 1900.

* On the outbreak of the Second World War Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911 and for the Second World War.

On the 4th of April 1940, he became chairman of the Military Coordinating Committee.

* In May 1940, he became Prime Minister and Minister of Defense and remained in office until 1945.

After Pearl Harbor Churchill worked closely with Franklin D. Roosevelt to ensure victory over Germany and Japan. He was also a loyal ally of the Soviet Union after Adolf Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941.

The End of Churchill’s Political Life

* He took over the premiership again in the Conservative victory of 1951 and resigned in 1955.

* He remained a Member of Parliament until the general election of 1964, when he did not seek re-election.

LEADERSHIP PRESENTATION : WINSTON CHURCHILL

(Manon)

As a Writer

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 was awarded to Winston Churchill "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values".

As a Painter

Winston Churchill was 41 when he first picked up a brush to paint.

(More than half of Churchill's paintings were produced during the 1930s, over a period of some 45 years and in more than 500 paintings.)

He won his first prize in 1925, for a painting...