On the day that Britain declared war on Germany, Winston Churchill was made First Lord of the Admiralty (the post he held during World War 1) and a member of the War Cabinet. Lord Randolph Churchill, in full Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, (born February 13, 1849, London, England—died January 24, 1895, London), British politician who was a precociously influential figure in the Conservative Party and the father of Winston Churchill. The International Churchill Society (ICS), founded in 1968 shortly after Churchill's death, is the world’s preeminent member organisation dedicated to preserving the historic legacy of Sir Winston Churchill. On 3 September 1939, the day UK declared war on Germany, following the outbreak of World War II, Winston Churchill was re-appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. This had been the position held by Churchill when the First World War began a quarter of a century earlier. Winston Churchill was a British military leader and statesman. He was offered a dukedom because of his war service, but refused it as he did not wish to lose the Churchill name. 2. Indeed Lord Randolph sat as an MP. Winston Churchill and World War 2. Many former Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom are made peers. His first wife (1939–46) was Pamela Digby; their son, Winston, followed his father into Parliament. Lord Randolph Churchill ’s life has long been over-shadowed by the enduring fame of his son. He inspired a generation of party managers, created the National Union of the Conservative Party, and broke new ground in modern budgetary presentations, attracting admiration and criticism from across the political spectrum. Since 1902, all British Prime Ministers have been members of the House of Commons as opposed to the House of Lords. Through it all, however, D’Este makes clear one point: without Winston Churchill, the Allies would not have been victorious in World War II. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born into the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Marlborough, a branch of the noble Spencer family on November 30, 1874 to Lord Randolph Churchill and Jennie Jerome. Margaret Thatcher was made a baroness, for example. Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill (13 February 1849 – 24 January 1895) was a British statesman. During the build-up to World War 2, Winston Churchill gave numerous speeches about the need to rearm against Germany. An exceptionally well-written and fascinating book, “Warlord: The Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945” gets my highest recommendation. - Vintage photograph Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill KG OM CH TD DL FRS RA was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Winston Churchill had a varied career during the First World War.At the outbreak of war in 1914, Churchill was serving as First Lord of the Admiralty. He was the eldest son of Lord Randolph Churchill, a Tory Democrat (a British political party) who … Lord Randolph Churchill died in January 1895 at the age of forty-five. Twice named prime minister of Great Britain, he helped to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II. In 1911, Churchill was transferred to the office of the First Lord of the Admiralty, a post he held into World War I.This was the year of the Agadir Crisis, with which Churchill opens The World Crisis, his account of World War One.His first major act was to replace all but one of the Sea Lords, the senior naval officers who administered the Admiralty.