preview

Leonard Spencer Churchill Research Paper

Decent Essays

Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born to Lord Randolph Churchill and Jeanette Jerome on November 30, 1874. Churchill grew up in Dublin, Ireland and attended two schools there, as well. In classes, he proved to be rebellious and independent. He did terribly in school, so he was sent to a boarding school near London, England in April of 1888. This was the start of military career.
He joined the Harrow Rifle Corps only a few weeks after his enrollment. It seemed, at first, that the military path was not good for him. It took him three tries to pass the British Royal Military College exam. In the end, however, he graduated in the top 20 in a class of 130. Churchill had a short career in the military. In 1895, he was part of the Fourth Hussars

Get Access