Clementine Churchill

Wife of Winston Churchill and life peer (1885–1977)

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Lived 1885–1977, aged 92United Kingdom

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35 languages
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Rank in United Kingdom
#231
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Era
1885–1977
Aged 92
Known for
Why We Fight: The Nazi…
1943

Summary

Updated 2026-06-21

She was Winston Churchill's wife for 56 years, but also a life peer who ran wartime relief operations and organised canteens for munitions workers while he ran the war.

Biography

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Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill was born in 1885, her paternity uncertain — legally the daughter of Sir Henry Hozier, though her mother's infidelity and his suspected infertility cast doubt. She met Churchill in 1904, married him in 1908, and they had five children; one, Marigold, died at two from sepsis. During the First World War she organised canteens for munitions workers. During the Second she chaired the Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund, led the YWCA War Time Appeal, and ran a maternity hospital in South Bucks. She collected titles throughout her life, the last a life peerage in 1965 aft…

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