Sir John Colville Archives - Richard M. Langworth

January 245h — Port Royal Street after the Kingston earthquake of January 1907. (Posted by Mike, Creative Commons)

What Winston Churchill was Doing on January 24th

25 January 2022 Comments 1 Comment

It seems something was always going on in Churchill's life on January 24th. It is best known as day his father died (1895), the day he predicted he would die too (1953)--and when he did (1965). A synopsis of each January 24th in his life would be interesting—as it would be for September 11th, that day of infamy.

“Too Easy to Be Good”: The Churchill Marriage and Lady Castlerosse

17 March 2018 Comments 2 Comments

My article, “The Churchill Marriage and Lady Castlerosse” was first published by The American Spectator on 13 March 2018.

“Here Firm, Though All Be Drifting” —WSC

It’s all over the Internet, so it must be true. Not only did Winston Churchill oppose women’s rights, gas tribesmen, starve Indians, firebomb Dresden, nurse anti-Semitism and wish to nuke Moscow. He even cheated on his wife—in a four-year affair with Doris Delevingne, Viscountess Castlerosse.

So declare the authors of “Sir John Colville, Churchillian Networks, and the ‘Castlerosse Affair’”—unreservedly repeated by British television, multiple media, even a university: (“Winston Churchill’s affair revealed by forgotten testimony.”…

“Houses, red meat, and not being scuppered…”

24 January 2012 Comments 0 Comments

I have read that Churchill told his private secretary, Jock Colville, in November 1951 that his new government’s priorities were ‘houses, red meat and not getting scuppered.’ But I can’t find this in Colville’s Fringes of Power. Any thoughts?

Wonderful quote, quite appropriate in an election season, wish it were in my book. The date was March 1952 not November 1951.

It is quoted as you state it by Paul Addison in his outstanding book Churchill on the Home Front (London: Cape, 1992) 412, footnoted to Fringes of Power “diary for 22-23 March 1952.” But Prof.…