YOUNG WINSTON

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YOUNG WINSTON
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1874 Winston Churchill born into the Elite of
Victorian Britains Elite

• Born in midst of High Victorian era
• Father Randolph Churchill
• Mother Jennie Jerome  

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1874 Winston Churchill born into the Elite of
Victorian Britains Elite

• FAMOUS family John Churchill (1650-1722) was one
  of Britains most famous generals later leading
  politician named Duke of Marlborough  Govt
  showers rewards on him, including magnificent
  BLENHEIM PALACE  

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BLENHEIM PALACE, CHURCHILLS BIRTHPLACE
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1874 Winston Churchill born into the Elite of
Victorian Britains Elite

• Father, Randolph, is the third son of the 7th
  Duke of Marlborough.  Hes descended from the
  famous John Churchill, but as third son, he does
  not inherit the title.  Like many male members of
  the British elite, he searches for a rich
  American bride, and finds her, Jennie Jerome. 

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1874 Winston Churchill born into the Elite of
Victorian Britains Elite

• Jennie Jerome (1854-1921)
• Father is New Yorker banker
• Jennie is outgoing, impulsive, beautiful,
  ambitious, and rich
• She becomes a central figure in the British elite

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1874 Winston Churchill born into the Elite of
Victorian Britains Elite

• Randolph is a CONSERVATIVE. 
• His modelDisraeli, and he advocates Tory
  Democracy, Conservatism (Dont change!)
  that is open to social reform (change!)
• Brash, flamboyant, he is the center of a group of
  young progressive conservatives
• but other conservatives see him as a traitor to
  the cause.  

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1870s Height of High Victorianism

• 1875 Disraeli buys control of the Suez Canal
• 1877 After re-organizing British rule in India,
  Disraeli proclaims Victoria Empress of India!

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1870s Height of High Victorianism

• Britain is THE WORLD POWER
• Economic leader
• World-wide Empire
• Functioning political system
• Culture influences the whole world

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1880-1892 (6-18)

• All the Privileges rich, superb connections,
  very center of the ELITE
• Off to school (Harrow)
• A terrible student
• Very smart, but
• Temper tantrums, argumentative, uncooperative,
  stubborn, aggressive

Loves make-believe voracious reader great
language skills
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1893 (19)

• Admitted to British West Point SANDHURST,
  mostly because of family connections.
• Loves military drama
• Hates military obedience

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1895 (21)

• Father, Randolph Churchill, dies at age 45
• Winston is devastated and becomes determined to
  complete his fathers political work

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1897 (23)

• Graduates 20 in class of 130
• Assigned to the 4th Hussars
• WC uses his elite connections to do pretty much
  whatever he wants

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1897 (23)

• India, as a young lieutenant
• Home on leave, hears of fighting in India,
  desperate to return
• Returns as officer and War Correspondent!

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1897 (23)

• Part of the Malakand Field Force
• Off to Pakistan to punish tribes who raid India
• WC loves writing, history, drama
• His newspaper reports are exciting, exotic,
  fascinating

NW India (Pakistan) site of the Malakand Field
Forces adventures
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1898 (24)

• Collects reports into a book,
• The Malakand Field Force
• With his great connections he quickly finds a
  publisher
• A Bestseller!

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The Malakand Field Force is a cross between
Kipling and 1,001 Arabian Nights it is full
of dramatic battles, exotic scenery, fantastic
characters, all written in a florid, breathless,
heated style
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1898 (24)

• Learns of huge expedition setting off from
  British Egypt for Sudan
• Uses connections to get himself assigned to the
  expedition

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1898 (24)

• Britain, from Egypt, has been trying to control
  the Nile River, down into Sudan
• The Muslim leader, the Mahdi, attacks British
• 1885 Charles Gordons dramatic last stand at
  Khartoum

The Death of Gordon at Khartoum, in 1885, was
one of the most dramatic events in Victorian
Britain
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1898 (24)

• 1898 Lord Kitchner leads army south from Egypt
  to occupy Sudan
• BATTLE OF OMDURMAN
• WC publishes second book, The River War
• Another bestseller!

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1899 (25)

• Popular author of two bestsellers
• Rich, perfect connections
• Runs for Parliament and loses

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1899 1901 Boer War

• British v. Dutch in South Africa
• WC rushes off as War Correspondent (hes still
  officially in the Army)
• Series of dramatic adventures! Capture! Escape!

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1899 1901 Boer War

• Book 3 London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
• Another bestseller!

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1900 Back into Politics

• Resigns from army
• Joins Conservative Party
• Runs for Parliament
• Khaki Election Hurray for Britain! Down with
  the Boers! Were 1!
• WC wins first election

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1901-1904 (27-30) Churchill, MP

• Conservative,
• but
• Constant clashes with the leadership
• WC is notoriously hard to work with!
• Also matters of political principle

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1901-1904 (27-30) Churchill, MP

• WC thinks of himself as a Tory Democrat   
• Poverty is NOT caused only by the laziness of
  the working class BUT RATHER by the
  unfairness of the economic system.   

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1901-1904 (27-30) Churchill, MP

• Police, fire, and military protection are public
  goods that every Briton should have
• So too are good education, decent housing,
  quality health care, etc

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1901-1904 (27-30) Churchill, MP

• Conservatives are Pro-Tariff (mostly to protect
  Big Business)
• But WC argues that tariffs are unpopular and
  unfair
• (This particular fight goes back to the Corn
  Laws, when Tories wanted to keep them, and Whigs
  wanted to end them)

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1901-1904 (27-30) Churchill, MP

• Churchill sympathizes with the LIBERALS
• Heirs to the Whigs
• the Peoples Friends
• Economic system unfairly helps the rich
• Education, housing, are public goods
• End tariffs

DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, the Liberal Leader
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1901-1904 (27-30) Churchill, MP

• 1904 WC SWITCHES TO THE LIBERALS!
• Allied with Liberal Leader DAVID LLOYD GEORGE
• WC becomes a Liberal star rich, famous
  family, well-connected, famous author, young,
  smart

Lloyd George Churchill
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1901-1904 (27-30) Churchill, MP

• Liberal Churchill is in line for a top job when
  and if the Liberals come to power