Winston Churchill
Churchill attended the Royal Military College,
Sandhurst, before embarking on an army career. He saw action on the North
West Frontier of India and in the Sudan. While working as a journalist during the
Boer War he was captured and made a prisoner-of-war before escaping.
In 1900, Churchill became Conservative member of parliament for Oldham. But
he became disaffected with his party and in 1904 joined the Liberal Party. When
the Liberals won the 1905 election, Churchill was appointed undersecretary at
the Colonial Office. In 1908 he entered the Cabinet as president of the Board of
Trade, becoming home secretary in 1910. The following year he became first lord
of the Admiralty. He held this post in the first months of World War One but after
the disastrous Dardanelles expedition, for which he was blamed, he resigned. He
joined the army, serving for a time on the Western Front. In 1917, he was back in
government as minister of munitions. From 1919 to 1921 he was secretary of
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