Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA (30
November 1874 â€" 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, army
officer, and writer. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from
1940 to 1945, when he led the country to victory in the Second World
War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922
and 1924, Churchill was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964
and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an
economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a
member of the Conservative Party, as leader from 1940 to 1955. He was
a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.Of mixed English and
American parentage, Churchill was born in Oxfordshire to a wealthy,
aristocratic family. He joined the British Army in 1895 and saw action
in British India, the Anglo-Sudan War, and the Second Boer War,
gaining fame as a war correspondent and writing books about his
campaigns. Elected a Conservative MP in 1900, he defected to the
Liberals in 1904. In H. H. Asquith's Liberal government, Churchill
served as President of the Board of Trade and Home Secretary,
championing prison reform and workers' social security. As First Lord
of the Admiralty during the First World War, he oversaw the Gallipoli
Campaign but, after it proved a disaster, he was demoted to Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster. He resigned in November 1915 and joined the
Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front for six months. In 1917, he
returned to government under David Lloyd George and served
successively as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War,
Secretary of State for Air, and Secretary of State for the Colonies,
overseeing the Anglo-Irish Treaty and British foreign policy in the
Middle East. After two years out of Parliament, he served as
Chancellor of the Exchequer in Stanley Baldwin's Conservative
government, returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard
at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as creating deflationary
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