Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965)

Awarded the Prize “for his y of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.”

British statesman, biographer and historian. Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, Oxford on November 30, 1874. He was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. After a brief but eventful career in the army, he became a Conservative Member of Parliament. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. He became Prime Minister twicely in 1940 and 1951. Churchill died on January 24, 1965 in London.
Major Works:
History of the English-speaking Peoples (1956-1958); The Unrelenting Struggle (1942); The Dawn of Liberation (1945); Victory (1946); The Second World War (1948-1953)