Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill was english on his father's side, and American on his mothers. His name Winston, came after the Royalist family with whom the Churchills married before the English Civil War; Leonard, after his grandfather, Leonard Jerome of New York; Spencer, the married name of a daughter of the 1st duke of Marlborough, from whom the family descended. He was born on Nov. 30, 1874, at Blenheim Palace, the famous palace near Oxford built by the …

…minister, but he continued to sit in Commons until July 1964. On April 9, 1963, he received, by special act of the U.S. Congress, the honor of being made an honorary American citizen. When he died in London on Jan. 24, 1965, at the age of 90, he was acclaimed as a citizen of the world, and on January 30 he was given the funeral of a hero. He was buried at Bladon, in the churchyard near Blenheim Palace, his birthplace.