Clementine Churchill

The Baroness Spencer-Churchill
Churchill in 1915
Member of the House of Lords
Life peerage
17 May 1965 – 12 December 1977
Personal details
Born
Clementine Ogilvy Hozier

(1885-04-01)1 April 1885
London, England
Died12 December 1977(1977-12-12) (aged 92)
London, England
Resting placeSt Martin's Church, Bladon
Political partyCrossbencher
Spouse
(m. 1908; died 1965)
Children

Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill,[1] GBE (née Hozier; 1 April 1885 – 12 December 1977) was the wife of Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and a life peer in her own right. While she was legally the daughter of Sir Henry Hozier, her mother Lady Blanche's known infidelity and his suspected infertility make her paternal parentage uncertain.

Clementine met Churchill in 1904 and they began their marriage of 56 years in 1908. They had five children together, one of whom (named Marigold) died aged two from sepsis. During the First World War, Clementine organised canteens for munitions workers and during the Second World War, she acted as Chairman of the Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund, President of the Young Women's Christian Association War Time Appeal and Chairman of Maternity Hospital for the Wives of Officers, Fulmer Chase, South Bucks.

Throughout her life she was granted many titles, the final being a life peerage following the death of her husband in 1965. In her later years, she sold several of her husband's portraits to help support herself financially. She died in her London home aged 92.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference ODNB was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · View on Wikipedia

Developed by Nelliwinne