Winston Churchill
Churchill served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of the Asquith Liberal government.
During the war, Churchill continued as First Lord of the Admiralty until the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign caused his departure from government.
He went on to be the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
Born 30th April 1874 in Blenheim Palace, Churchill was an aristocrat, an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, an artist and MP for Dundee since 1908.
He is the only British Prime Minister to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Nicholas Asbury plays Winston Churchill
Nicholas Asbury's TV credits include: , The Bletchley Circle, Da Vinci's Demons (series 1 & 2), Borgia, Love & Marriage, Inbetweeners, Coronation Street, Dunkirk & Midsomer Murders. Films include: Shadow Dancer with Clive Owen.
Nicholas has worked extensively in the theatre, notably for the Royal Shakespeare Company performing in all The History Plays. He has also had two books published, Exit Pursued By A Badger and White Hart Red Lion
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