Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was 36 when he became First Lord of the Admiralty. Born in 1874 to British and American parents, he served in the military in India. Originally a Liberal, he was a Conservative when elected at age 66 Prime Minister of the UK from 1940 to 1945, spanning WWII, and again from 1951 to 1955. Read Who Cares? about the struggle for dignity at Woodruff Home for the Aged, “a lively place where old people go to die.” Learn more about the book and its characters, aged 9-90, in NOVELS.
Churchill 36 when became First Lord of Admiralty; 66 when elected UK Prime Minister
Woodruff Home for the Aged, a lively place where old people go to die
