Jeanette Spencer-Churchill | |
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Born | Jeanette Jerome 9 January 1854 Brooklyn, New York State, U.S. |
Died | 29 June 1921 London, England | (aged 67)
Buried | St Martin's Church, Bladon |
Spouse(s) | |
Issue | Sir Winston Churchill Jack Churchill |
Father | Leonard Jerome |
Mother | Clarissa Hall |
Jeanette "Jennie" Spencer-Churchill[1] CI RRC DStJ (née Jerome; 9 January 1854[2] – 29 June 1921), known as Lady Randolph Spencer-Churchill,[a] was an American-born British socialite, the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill, and the mother of British prime minister Winston Churchill.
The date recorded in the family Bible, although put in some years later, was made by Leonard Jerome's cousin, Margaret Middleton, an historian for the Daughters of the American Revolution and an accomplished genealogist. She unquestionably checked her facts with the immediate family. Further confirmation of the 1854 birth-date comes from a letter Jennie wrote to her husband on January 8, 1883, thanking him for a present: "Just in time for my birthday tomorrow—29 my dear; but I shall not acknowledge it to the world. 26 is quite enough.
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