http://localhost:8080/randolph-churchill-official-biography-2 Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Thu, 03 Oct 2019 16:59:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 http://localhost:8080/randolph-churchill-official-biography-2#comment-31500 Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:29:47 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=8808#comment-31500 Good question, which I relayed to David Lough, author of No More Champagne, an excellent book on the Churchill finances. Mr. Lough replies: “Chartwell or the Literary trust (both names for the same Trust) bought Stour for him and gave him regular gifts (as it did also to the other children, to be fair). Clementine Churchill was the main mover in pushing her co-trustees to buy him a place away from Chartwell. It had been originally intended that he would inherit the Chartwell Farmhouse and some land, but she thought he would prove an impossible neighbour for the National Trust!” Of course, in those days, costs and overhead were a lot lower in Suffolk than today, when it is valuable real estate. Even so, Sir Martin Gilbert told me, Randolph was frequently chased by creditors: the butcher, the baker, etc….

]]> http://localhost:8080/randolph-churchill-official-biography-2#comment-31499 Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:29:29 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=8808#comment-31499 Paul McShea writes: Thank you for your series on Randolph Churchill. The photograph from Part 2 showing the back of Stour is the first that I have seen. My question is: how did Randolph afford to live, in the grand style, at Stour? I know he was an accomplished journalist and writer, but nowhere near the level of demand of his father, nor I am sure in the same pay scale.

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