Randolf Federick Howard Spencer-Churchill

1911 - 1968  (57 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 4 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Randolf Federick Howard Spencer-Churchill  [1]
  Birth	28 May 1911	London, Middlesex, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Jun 1968	England
  Siblings	4 Siblings
  + 1. Diana Spencer-Churchill,   b. 11 Jul 1909   d. Abt 1963  (Age 53 years) ▻ John Milner Bailey,  m. 1935 ;   Edwin Sandys,  m. 16 Sep 1935 + 2. Randolf Federick Howard Spencer-Churchill,   b. 28 May 1911, London, Middlesex, England d. 6 Jun 1968, England  (Age 57 years) ▻ Pamela Beryl Digby,  m. 4 Oct 1939 ;   Momo Marriott;   June Osborne,  m. Nov 1948   3. Sarah Milicent Hermione Spencer-Churchill,   b. 7 Oct 1914   d. Abt 1982  (Age 67 years)   4. Marigold Frances Spencer-Churchill,   b. 15 Nov 1918   d. 1921  (Age 2 years) + 5. Living
  Person ID	I39755	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	20 Nov 2001

  
  

  Father	Prime Minister Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill,   b. 30 Nov 1874, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England d. 24 Jan 1965, Bladon, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England (Age 90 years)
  Mother	Clementine Ogilvy Hozier,   b. 1885   d. 12 Dec 1977 (Age 92 years)
  Marriage	12 Sep 1908	St. Margaret's, Westminster, London, England
  Family ID	F16889	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Pamela Beryl Digby,   b. 20 Mar 1920, Farnborough Park d. 5 Feb 1997, Paris, Île-de-France, France (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	4 Oct 1939	St. John's, Smith Square   [1, 2]
  Divorce	1946
  Children	+ 1. Living
  Family ID	F16893	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Nov 2001

  
  

  Family 2	Momo Marriott   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F66910	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

  Family 3	June Osborne
  Marriage	Nov 1948  [2]
  Divorce	1961
  Children	1. Living
  Family ID	F16898	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

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• Notes

  Randolph Churchill, aged twenty-eight, was exceedingly handsome despite a reputation for drunkenness, boorishness and treating most people with the utmost contempt. He made a spasmodic living by journalism and lecturing until he joined the army. When on leave he met, and immediately became engaged to, a jolly, plump, red-haired, nineteen-year-old girl, Pamela Digby. Within days they were married, making the war an excuse for haste, though there was not much going on with the 4th Hussars. The wedding took place at Admiralty House and his parents, Winston and Clementine, hoped that Pamela would "settle him down". Randolph was quite open about the fact he wanted a son, which was the reason why he married, lady friends were for sex but Pamela he regarded as "breeding" material. Continuing to womanize, when Pamela was in the process of giving birth, it was reported that he was in bed with another woman. Even during the war, when stationed in Egypt, he had a long affaire with Momo Marriott and when she was not available had a succession of girlfriends, some of them prostitutes. However, during the war Randolph proved his courage many times and was to do so again as a war reporter in Korea, where he was shot in the leg. But his capacity for drink remained prodigious and he was embittered by his father's evident lack of enthusiasm for his company. Although the rows between them became increasingly exhausting for the older man with the passing years, yet there remained a deep affection between them. Randolph's long-delayed divorce came through a few months after the end of the war and, in November 1948, he married June Osborne. It was inevitably a tempestuous relationship held together only by their beautiful daughter, Arabella, although finally ending in divorce in 1961. In the previous year Randolph had been entrusted with the writing of his father's biography, incontrovertibly the single most important and worthwhile task of his life. He went about it with professional zeal, surrounding himself with a team of researchers and secretaries at his place at Stour. However, his health was already failing, his prodigious cigarette smoking taking its toll. In a life touched by tragedy, insecurity and loneliness, the worst blow was his being able to complete only the first two volumes of a biography that gave strong evidence of matching its subject in its quality and understanding. (Condensed from Richard Hough's "Winston and Clementine".)

  
  

• Sources

  [S14] Brian Tompsett, University of Hull Royal Database (England), (copyright 1994, 1995, 1996 , , Repository: WWW, University of Hull, Hull, UK HU6 7RX bct@tardis.ed.ac.uk). [S106] Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, (Henry Holt & Company, New York ,).