Winston Churchill was born on 1874 and lived until 1965, he was the son of Lord Randolph Churchill. Winston Churchill was a ruling class politician born on November 30, 1874 in Oxfordshire, England. He died on January 24, 1965. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 10, 1940 to July 27, 1945 and October 26, 1951 to April 7, 1955. His imperialist contempt for subject peoples was motivated by vicious racism. That can be seen in the following testimony he offered before the Peel Commission on Palestine: