Clementine Churchill

CLEMENTINE CHURCHILL d1977. Wife of Sir Winston Churchill 1908-1965 and a life peer in her own right. Clementine (pronounced Clemen-teen) met Churchill in 1904 and they began their marriage of 56 years in 1908. They had five children together, one of whom (named Marigold) died at the age of two from sepsis.During WW1, she organised canteens for munitions workers and during WW2, she acted as Chairman of the Red Cross Aid to Russia fund / President of the War Time Appeal and Chairman of Maternity Hospital for the Wives of Officers. Throughout her life she was granted many titles, the final being a life peerage following the death of her husband in 1965. In her later years, she sold several of her husband’s portraits to help support herself financially. She died in her London home at the age of 92 on December 12th 1977