Robert browning biography summary of winston churchill

          A Nobel Prize-winning writer and a skilled painter, he was a man of many talents.

        1. Churchill also adored his grandson and namesake Winston, born in October In May , Churchill wrote Randolph: “Winston was in the pink.
        2. He was born into a loveless marriage and had a difficult childhood, but he had a remorseless fire within him that he hid behind his Dutch surroundings.
        3. President Taft and Winston Churchill gave speeches there.
        4. A letter signed by the British wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill is to be sold at an auction in Shropshire.

          5. He was born into a loveless marriage and had a difficult childhood, but he had a remorseless fire within him that he hid behind his Dutch surroundings....



          Robert Browning was born on May 7, 1812, in Camberwell (a suburb of London), the first child of Robert and Sarah Anna Browning.

          His mother was a fervent Evangelical and an accomplished pianist. Mr. Browning had angered his own father and forgone a fortune: the poet's grandfather had sent his son to oversee a West Indies sugar plantation, but the young man had found the institution of slavery so abhorrent that he gave up his prospects and returned home, to become a clerk in the Bank of England.

          Winston Churchill, who in our most dread days armed us with a superhuman courage and endurance that we might respond to his words and actions.

          On this very modest salary he was able to marry, raise a family, and to acquire a library of 6000 volumes. He was an exceedingly well-read man who could recreate the siege of Troy with the household chairs and tables for the benefit of his inquisitive son.

          Indeed, most of the poet's education came at home. He was an extremely bright child and a voracious reader (he read through all fifty volumes of the Biographie Universelle ) and learned Latin, Greek, French and Italian by the time he w