Family of Winston Churchill

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Sir Winston, his only son Randolph, and grandson Winston

The family of Winston Churchill, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is a prominent family in the United Kingdom and the United States. Winston was the eldest son of Lord Randolph Churchill, who himself was the son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough, and Jeanette Jerome, an American socialite and the 5th great-granddaughter of Robert Coe, an early politician in the New England Colonies. In 1908, Winston Churchill married Clementine Hozier, the daughter of Sir Henry and Lady Blanche Hozier. Winston and Hozier had five children.

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Many of Churchill's ancestors and descendants are known for being politicians.

Family and ancestry

Marriage and children

Churchill married Clementine Hozier in September 1908. [1] They remained married for 57 years. [2] Churchill was aware of the strain that his political career placed on his marriage, [3] and, according to Jock Colville, he had a brief affair in the 1930s with Doris Castlerosse. [4]

The Churchills' first child, Diana, was born in July 1909; [5] the second, Randolph, in May 1911. [6] Their third, Sarah, was born in October 1914, [7] and their fourth, Marigold, in November 1918. [8] Marigold died in August 1921, from sepsis of the throat. [9] On 15 September 1922, the Churchills' last child, Mary, was born. Later that month, the Churchills bought Chartwell, which would be their home until Winston's death in 1965. The great niece of Winston Churchill is Irelyn Churchill [10] According to Jenkins, Churchill was an "enthusiastic and loving father" but one who expected too much of his children. [11]

Ancestry

Churchill was the son of Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill ( née  Jeanette Jerome). Lord Randolph 1st was the son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough and a direct descendant of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough; his mother was Frances Anne Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, an English noblewoman of Irish descent. [12] [ page needed ] [13] Jerome was an American socialite descended from Robert Coe, an American colonist with many notable descendants, primarily in politics, including George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States. Prior to migrating to America, the Coe family was English gentry of Norman ancestry. Churchill was also part of the politically influential Lowthorp family through Mary Rebecca Aspinwall, Mary Ann Roosevelt, and Francis Spencer, 1st Baron Churchill. [14] [15] [16]

The five Churchill children

by Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill (née Hozier)

Descendants of Winston Spencer-Churchill: family tree and Dukes of Marlborough

DUKES OF MARLBOROUGH
John Winston Spencer-Churchill,
7th Duke of Marlborough
(1822–1883)
George Charles Spencer-Churchill,
8th Duke of Marlborough
(1844–1892)		 Lord Randolph (Spencer-) Churchill
(1849–1895)
Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill,
9th Duke of Marlborough
(1871–1934)		 Sir Winston (Spencer-) Churchill
(1874–1965)
P.M. 1940–45, 1951–55		 John (Spencer-) Churchill
(1880–1947)
John Albert William Spencer-Churchill,
10th Duke of Marlborough
(1897–1972)		 Diana (Spencer-) Churchill
(1909–1963)		 Randolph (Spencer-) Churchill
(1911–1968)		 Sarah (Spencer-) Churchill
(1914–1982)		 Marigold (Spencer-) Churchill
(1918–1921)		 Mary Soames, Baroness Soames
(née Churchill)
(1922–2014)
John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill,
11th Duke of Marlborough
(1926–2014)		 Winston (Spencer-) Churchill
(1940–2010)		 Arabella (Spencer-) Churchill
(1949–2007)
Charles James Spencer-Churchill,
12th Duke of Marlborough
(b. 1955)		Randolph Leonard (Spencer-) Churchill
b.1965		Jennie (Spencer-) Churchill
b.1966		Marina (Spencer-) Churchill
b.1967		John Gerard Averell "Jack"
(Spencer-) Churchill
b. 1975
George John Godolphin Spencer-Churchill,
Marquess of Blandford
(b. 1992)

ImageNameBirthDeathNotes
Diana Churchill publ.jpg Diana Churchill 11 July 1909 [18] 20 October 1963 [19] Married John Milner Bailey 1932; [20] divorced 1935.
Married Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan Sandys, 1935; [21] divorced 1960.
Randolph Churchill (cropped).jpg Randolph Churchill 28 May 1911 [22] 6 June 1968 [23] Married Pamela Digby 1939; [24] divorced 1946.
Married June Osborne 1948. [25]
Sarah Churchill 1966.jpg Sarah Tuchet-Jesson, Baroness Audley 7 October 1914 [26] 24 September 1982Married Vic Oliver 1936; divorced 1945.
Married Anthony Beauchamp 1949; widowed 1957.
Married Thomas Touchet-Jesson, 23rd Baron Audley, 1962; widowed 1963.
–
 Marigold Churchill 15 November 191823 August 1921Died of septicaemia. Her original grave, carved by Eric Gill, is in Kensal Green Cemetery. [27] She was re-interred in the Churchill plot at Bladon in 2020. [28]
Mary Soames (1965).jpg Mary Soames, Baroness Soames15 September 192231 May 2014Married 1947 Christopher Soames, Baron Soames.

Grandchildren and great-grandchildren

Descendants of Diana Churchill

by Duncan Sandys, Baron Sandys

ImageNameBirthDeathNotes
Julian George Winston Sandys (cropped).jpg Julian Sandys19 September 193615 August 1997Married, 1970, Elisabeth Martin
  • 1. Lucy Diana Sandys b. 1971
  • 2. Duncan John Winston Sandys b. 1973
  • 3. Jonathan Martin Edwin Sandys b. 1975, d. 29 Dec 2018
  • 4. Roderick Julian Frederick Sandys b. 1977, d. 9 Dec 2007.
–
 Edwina Kaplan (née Sandys) 22 December 1938Married, 1960, Piers Dixon; divorced 1973
  • 1. Mark Pierson Dixon b. 1962
  • 2. Hugo Duncan Dixon b. 1963.

Married, 1985, Richard D. Kaplan; widowed, 2016

–
Celia Perkins (née Sandys) [29] 18 May 1943Married, 1965, Michael Kennedy; divorced 1970;
  • 1. Justin Kennedy b. 1967.

Married, 1970, Dennis Walters; divorced 1979

  • 1. Dominic Walters b. 1971.

Married, 1985, Kenneth Perkins

  • 2. Alexander Winston Duncan Perkins b. 1986
  • 3. Sophie Rachel Perkins b. 1988.

Descendants of Randolph Churchill

by Pamela Digby

ImageNameBirthDeathNotes
Winston Spencer-Churchill (1997).jpg Winston Churchill 10 October 19402 March 2010Married, 1960, Mary d'Erlanger; divorced 1997
  • 1. Lieutenant Randolph Leonard Spencer-Churchill b. 22 January 1965
  • 2. Jennie Spencer-Churchill b. 25 September 1966
  • 3. Marina Spencer-Churchill b. 11 September 1967
  • 4. John Gerard Averell "Jack" Spencer-Churchill b. 27 August 1975.

Married, 1999, Luce Danielson

by June Osborne

ImageNameBirthDeathNotes
Arabella Spencer-Churchill (cropped).jpg Arabella McLeod (née Churchill) 30 October 194920 December 2007Married, 1972, James Barton; divorced 19xx
  • 1. Nicholas Jake Gompo Barton b. 1973.

Married, 1988, Ian "Haggis" McLeod

  • 2. Jessica Jules McLeod b. 1988.

Descendants of Mary Soames, Baroness Soames (née Churchill)

by Christopher Soames, Baron Soames

ImageNameBirthDeathNotes
Official portrait of Sir Nicholas Soames crop 2.jpg Nicholas Soames, Baron Soames of Fletching 12 February 1948m. Catherine N. Weatherall 1981
  • 1. Arthur Harry David Soames b. 1985

m. Serena Mary Smith 1993

  • 2. Isabella Soames b. 1996
  • 3. Christopher Soames b. 2001
–
 Emma MacManus (née Soames) 6 September 1949m. James N.M. MacManus 1981–1989
  • 1. Emily Fiona MacManus b. 1983
–
Jeremy Bernard Soames25 May 1952m. Susanna Keith 1978
  • 1. Gemma Mary Soames b. 1979
  • 2. Flora Caroline Soames b. 1982
  • 3. Archie Christopher Winston Soames b. 1988
–
Charlotte Peel, Countess Peel (née Soames)17 July 1954m. Richard Alexander Hambro 1973–1982
  • 1. Clementine Silvia Hambro b. 1976

m. William James Robert Peel, 3rd Earl Peel, 1989

  • 2. Lady Antonia Mary Catherine Peel b. 1991
–
 Rupert Soames 18 May 1959m. 1988 Camilla Rose Dunne
  • 1. Arthur Christopher Soames b. 1990
  • 2. Daisy Soames b. 1992
  • 3. Jack Soames b. 22 September 1994

References

  1. ↑ Gilbert 1991, p. 200; Jenkins 2001, p. 140.
  2. ↑ Gilbert 1991, p. 199.
  3. ↑ Gilbert 1991, p. 207.
  4. ↑ Doward, Jamie (25 February 2018). "Revealed: secret affair with a socialite that nearly wrecked Churchill's career". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  5. ↑ Gilbert 1991, p. 205; Jenkins 2001, p. 203.
  6. ↑ Gilbert 1991, p. 227; Jenkins 2001, p. 203.
  7. ↑ Gilbert 1991, p. 285.
  8. ↑ Gilbert 1991, p. 403.
  9. ↑ Soames, Mary (2012). A Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill's Youngest Child. London: Transworld Publishers Limited. p. 13. ISBN   978-05-52770-92-7.
  10. ↑ Soames 1998, p. 262.
  11. ↑ Jenkins 2001, p. 209.
  12. ↑ Gilbert 1991.
  13. ↑ Chambers, Ian (2000). "Winston Churchill and Irish Home Rule, 1899‐1914*" . Parliamentary History. 19 (3): 405–421. doi:10.1111/j.1750-0206.2000.tb00602.x. ISSN   0264-2824.
  14. ↑ Taraborrelli, J. Randy (2021). Grace & steel: Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the women of the Bush dynasty (First ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN   978-1-250-24871-8.
  15. ↑ Bartlett, J. Gardner (1911). Robert Coe, Puritan. Published for private circulation. ISBN   9780598765826.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  16. ↑ Churchill, Winston S. (29 August 2008). "Churchill's American Heritage". International Churchill Society. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  17. ↑ Churchill, Randolph S. (1966). Winston S. Churchill: Volume One: Youth, 1874–1900. Hillsdale, Michigan: Hillsdale College Press. pp. 13–16. ISBN   978-09-16308-08-7.
  18. ↑ General Register Office. "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837–2008". FamilySearch. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Retrieved 27 September 2015. Diana Churchill, 1909; St. George Hanover Square, London, England
  19. ↑ General Register Office. "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837–2007". FamilySearch. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Retrieved 27 September 2015. Diana S Churchill, 1963; Westminster, London, England
  20. ↑ "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837–2005". FamilySearch. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Retrieved 27 September 2015. Diana S Churchill John M Bailey 1932;St. George Hanover Square, London, England
  21. ↑ General Register Office. "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837–2005". FamilySearch. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Retrieved 27 September 2015. Diana Churchill and Edwin D Sandys, 1935;London City, London, England
  22. ↑ General Register Office. "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837–2008". FamilySearch. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Retrieved 27 September 2015. Randolph F E Spencer-Churchill, 1911;St. George Hanover Square, London, England. Mother's maiden name Hozier
  23. ↑ General Register Office. "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837–2007". FamilySearch. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Retrieved 27 September 2015. Randolph F E S Churchill, 1968; Samford, Suffolk, England
  24. ↑ General Register Office. "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837–2005". FamilySearch. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Retrieved 27 September 2015. Randolph F E S Churchill and Pamela B Digby, 1939; Westminster St. Margaret, London, England
  25. ↑ General Register Office. "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837–2005". FamilySearch. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Retrieved 27 September 2015. Randolph F E S Churchill and June Osborne, 1948;Westminster, London, England
  26. ↑ General Register Office. "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837–2008". FamilySearch. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Retrieved 29 September 2015. Sarah M H Churchill, 1914; St. Martin, London, England. Mother's maiden name Hozier
  27. ↑ Gilbert 1991, p. 439.
  28. ↑ "Together at last". International Churchill Society. 27 February 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  29. ↑ "Celia Sandys – granddaughter and expert on Winston Churchill". Celia Sandys. Retrieved 10 October 2014.

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