This article is first in a famous students series that will be posted in this blog.
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill is known as one of great wartime leaders in history. He was most loved and most criticized man in United Kingdom at the same time. His multifaceted genius, lead him to conquer immortality in the world of politics. He was also a remarkable historian, biographer, lecturer, war correspondent and. Of course well known cognac drinker
Churchill was born in Oxfordshire in 1874 and died in 1965 in London.
As a child he was rebel and independent. He attended two different schools : St George’s School in Ascot, Berkshire and Brunswick School in Hove before get access to Harrow Military School for boys in 1888 where his actual career began.
After he left Harrow he applied to Royal Military College located in Sandhurst. He needed three attempts to attend to one of the best army schools in the world.
Before becoming British Prime Minister in 1940 he was officer in the army, historian, writer and artist. During those years he traveled to Cuba, Sudan, India , South Africa and even he was fighting at western front during First World War.
Churchill was Nobel Prize in Literature winner in 1953 specially for his six volume work ser avbout the Second World War.
Also he was first person to be recognized as “Honorary Citizen of the United States”
After his death he was honored with a state funeral at Saint Paul’s Cathedral and finally he was buried in the family plot in Bladon, near Woodstock.