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Resignation of Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Great Britain · Government / Conservative Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

6Records

1901–1955Date range

2Named people

1Places

Chronological records

1901

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill1901

Government / Conservative Party Government

Resigns from the Conservatives & joins the Liberals on the issue of free trade

1931

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill28 January 1931

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Resigns from the shadow Cabinet over Baldwins support for Indian self-Government

1954

Maurice Harold MacMillan Stockton, 1st1954

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Opposes Churchills resignation but changes his mind by January 1955

1955

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill24 January 1955

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

MacMillan advises Churchill to retire

Maurice Harold MacMillan Stockton, 1st24 January 1955

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Advises Churchill to retire, the only member of the Government brave enough to do so

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill5 April 1955

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Resigns due to ill health. Chairs the Cabinet for the last time & announces his resignation

Names involved

Maurice Harold MacMillan Stockton, 1stWinston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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