Churchill, Randolph

▪ British author

born May 28, 1911, London, Eng.

died June 6, 1968, East Bergholt, Suffolk

      English author, journalist, and politician, the only son of British prime minister Winston Churchill.

      Churchill was a popular journalist in the 1930s and thrice failed to enter Parliament before becoming Conservative member for Preston (1940–45). During World War II he served as an intelligence officer in the Middle East and Yugoslavia. He was unsuccessful in parliamentary elections in 1945, 1950, and 1951.

      His books on controversial topics included What I Said About the Press (1957), The Rise and Fall of Sir Anthony Eden (1959), and The Fight for the Tory Leadership (1964). He wrote a historical study, Lord Derby: King of Lancashire (1960), and by his death had published two volumes of a definitive biography of his father, Youth, 1874–1900 (1966) and Young Statesman, 1901–1914 (1967).

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