4th Duke of Marlborough
George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough
(see
here), born 1739,
succ 1758, portrait at Wilton,
mar
Caroline Russell
[
descendant
of
Edward III]
and died 1817, having had issue:
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:
-
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,
which led to the destruction of Ireland's
Public Record Office,
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,
declined a Dukedom (1st Duke of London offered 1955),
the only non-royal offered a Dukedom since 1874,
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:
Since 1983.