Lord Randolph Churchill
British politician, father of Winston Churchill (1849-1895) · United Kingdom · On the map · Politicians · Died at 45
Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill was a British aristocrat and politician. He was a Tory radical who coined the term "Tory democracy" and participated in the creation of the "National Union of the Conservative Party".
In history
British General Election · Candidate
The 1885 election introduced widespread male suffrage and marked a turning point in British democratic representation.
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William Ewart Gladstone
Arthur Balfour
Charles Stewart Parnell+4 more
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Brothers and sisters
George Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough
Anne Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe
Sarah Wilson
Fanny Marjoribanks, Baroness Tweedmouth
Georgiana Curzon, Countess Howe- Lord Augustus Spencer-Churchill
- Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill
Cornelia Guest, Baroness Wimborne- Lord Frederick Spencer-Churchill
- Rosamond Spencer-Churchill
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Media & music
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Churchill in the 1860s
Randolph and Jennie Churchill in Paris (1874). Photo by Georges Penabert.
"The Fourth Party": Spencer-Churchill, Balfour, Drummond-Wolff and Gorst as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, 1 December 1880
Oil on canvas painting of Churchill by Edwin Arthur Ward (1886)
1881 Punch cartoon by Edward Linley Sambourne of Lord Randolph Churchill, M.P., as a "midge with no sting in Parliament."
Marker at Lord Churchill's former home
