4th Duke of Marlborough

George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough,
mar Susan Stewart [descendant of Henry VII]
and had issue:

George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough,
mar Jane Stewart [descendant of Henry VII]
and had issue:

John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (and here), born 1822,
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 1876-80,
his grandson Winston Churchill stayed in Viceregal Lodge as a child,
had issue:

Lord Randolph Churchill (and here), born 1849, Blenheim Palace,
opponent of Home Rule for Ireland, in the time of the Marquess of Salisbury and Parnell,
led opposition to atheists sitting in House of Commons,
died 1895, had issue:

1. Sir Winston Churchill (and here and here),
   more on ancestry here and here,
   born 1874, Blenheim Palace,
   first elected MP 1900,
   First Lord of the Admiralty 1911-15, supported Irish Home Rule, though big anti-Home Rule rally was held at Blenheim 1912,
   Minister of Munitions 1917-19, a pioneer and a lonely voice in trying to get the democracies to end the communist regime in Russia at birth (1917), declaring that Bolshevism must be "strangled in its cradle",
   Secretary of State for War 1919-21, during Irish War of Independence, it was Churchill who set up the RIC Auxiliaries (one of two RIC paramilitary forces, the other being the Black and Tans),
   Secretary of State for the Colonies 1921-22, he was a signatory of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921, demanded that Irish Free State dislodge republicans from Four Courts 1922, was strangely untroubled by the ensuing loss of Ireland's Public Record Office, given that he was a historical writer himself,
   a pioneer and a lonely voice in trying to get the democracies to oppose Nazi Germany at birth (1933),
   Prime Minister 1940-5, leader of Britain through WW2, when Churchill stood alone in defence of democracy and human freedom in Europe,
   he saved Britain and all of western Europe, but was also of course involved in the two great crimes of the allies: (1) the bombing of German civilians, and: (2) the selling out of Poland and Eastern Europe to Stalin after the war (against his better instincts),
   Prime Minister 1951-5,
   Nobel Prize for Literature 1953,
   K.G., FRS,
   declined a Dukedom (1st Duke of London offered 1955), the only non-royal offered a Dukedom since 1874,
   he was made the first ever Honorary Citizen of the United States 1963,
   died 1965, state funeral, this remains the only state funeral for a non-royal since 1914,
   bur Bladon nr Woodstock.
   Perhaps the most admired Briton of all time. Scored no.1 in recent poll of 100 Greatest Britons.

• Marlborough Rd, Donnybrook, Co.Dublin, is probably after the 7th Duke.

• After Winston Churchill:
  • Churchill College, Cambridge.
  • Churchill Falls and Churchill River, Newfoundland, Canada.
  • USS Winston S. Churchill, the only active U.S. Navy warship named after a foreign national.
  • John Winston Lennon.

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