Identifier: mirrorsofdowning00begb (find matches)
Title: The mirrors of Downing street; some political reflections
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Begbie, Harold, 1871-1929
Subjects: Statesmen -- Great Britain Great Britain -- Politics and government 1910-1936
Publisher: New York and London : G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
away from
barbarism towards nobler reason and less
partial truth.

MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL

MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL

The Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill (Leonard Spencer) son of Lord
Randolph Churchill. Born, 1874. Educ: Harrow and Sandhurst.
Entered army in 1895; served with Spanish Forces in Cuba, 1895; in
operations in India, 1897-98; on the Nile and at the Battle of Khartoum,
1899; was given the Khartoum Medal in that year; Correspondent of
the Morning Post in South Africa, 1899-1900; taken prisoner and
escaped, 1900; in long series of actions including Spion Kop, Pieters,
and capture of Pretoria; M.P. Oldham, 1900-06; M.P. for Manchester,
1906-08; commissioned Colonel, 1916; retired, 1916; Under Colonial
Secretary, 1906-08; President Board of Trade, 1908-10; Home Secretary,
1910-11; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1911-15; Minister of Munitions,
1917; Rector of Aberdeen Univ., 1914; Chairman of the Duchy of
Lancaster, 1915; Author of a series of books (campaign records), and
also of the Life of Lord Randolph Churchill.
Text Appearing After Image:
© U. & U.

RT. HON. WINSTON CHURCHILL

CHAPTER IX

MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL

" He was not free from that careless life-contemning desperation, which
sometimes belongs to forcible natures. . . . He was too heedless of his good
name and too blind to the truth that though right and wrong may be near
neighbours, yet the line that separates them is of an awful sacredness."—
JOHN MORLEY (of Danton).

Mr. Winston Churchill was one of its most interest-
ing figures in the Parliament which included Joseph
Chamberlain, Charles Dilke, and George Wyndham.
With the fading exception of Mr. Lloyd George, he is
easily the most interesting figure in the present House
of Commons. There still clings to his career that element of great
promise and unlimited uncertainty which from his first
entrance into politics has interested both the public
and the House of Commons. He has disappointed
his admirers on several occasions, but not yet has he
exhausted their patience or destroyed their hopes. His intellectual gifts are considerable, his personal

Note About Images