Winston and Clementine Churchill Signed Celebration Dinner in Honour Of Winston S. Churchill Program.

CHURCHILL, Winston S. and Clementine Churchill.

$8,800.00

Item Number: 142590

Essex: Woodford Division Conservative Association, November 23, 1954.

Rare dinner program from the celebration held in honor of the 80th birthday of Winston Churchill by the Woodford Division Conservative Association on Tuesday, November 23rd 1954. Octavo, original stiff paper wrappers, ribbon bound in. Signed by Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill on the front panel. Accompanied by a typed transmittal letter dated February 9th 1955 signed by Churchill’s personal private secretary L.M. Shillingford to John Redfern returning the signed menu with ‘best wishes from Sir Winston and Lady Churchill for the work which you will be doing for the new Chigwell Division’, a black and white photograph of Churchill speaking at the dinner by Gerald J. Sharp of South Woodford, an invitation to the dinner, a telegram from Churchill dated December 1952 thanking Redfern for his kind message, and a letter from Woodford Conservative Association asking him to contribute to a portrait of Lady Churchill by John Napper to be presented to Churchill as a birthday present. In near fine condition.

Following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain on May 10th 1940, Winston S. Churchill became Prime Minister of England and took the lead in warning about Nazi Germany and in campaigning for rearmament. His speeches and radio broadcasts helped inspire British resistance, especially during the difficult days of 1940–41 when the British Commonwealth and Empire stood almost alone in its active opposition to Adolf Hitler. A non-academic historian, artist, and prolific writer, Churchill won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his overall, lifetime body of work.