Churchill, Jennie Spencer (1854-1921, née Jerome, Lady Randolph Churchill)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1854 - 1921
Admin / Family structure
Wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and mother of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill.
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Series
Acquired papers, [c.1873]-1919
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/11
Scope and Contents
Mainly comprising Lady Randolph Churchill's correspondence on subjects including receiving the Order of the Crown of India, the Hospital Ship “Maine” and Lady Randolph’s literary work (the Anglo-Saxon Review, ‘The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill’ and a series of articles titled ‘The Simmering Samovar’). Also includes a childhood letter from WSC to Lady Randolph Churchill, letters from Montagu Porch to Lady Randolph Churchill, and a letter from Lord Randolph Churchill to J H...
Dates:
[c.1873]-1919
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
File
Correspondence, 1962 - 1971
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLFF 2/12
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: various persons, including others engaged on the Official Biography (4 files, 1962-1969); representatives of Heinemann Publishers Limited on the text of the Official Biography, March-April 1965; Anita King [earlier Anita Leslie] on 'Jennie', her biography of Lady Randolph Churchill [earlier Jennie Jerome], 1968-1971; Peregrine Churchill and others on 'Jennie' in the context of an American publication alleging various things about the Churchill family.
Dates:
1962 - 1971
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Lady Randolph Churchill and contemporaries
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW II 15
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Subjects covered include: WSC's escape from captivity during the South African War; election campaigns; reviews and illustrations for WSC's writing; WSC's parents, Lord Randolph Churchill and Lady Randolph Churchill.
Conditions Governing Access:
Unfit for production
File
Lord Randolph Churchill and Lady Randolph Churchill and contemporaries
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW II 16
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Subjects covered include: WSC's escape from captivity during the South African War; election campaigns; reviews and illustrations for WSC's writing; WSC's parents, Lord Randolph Churchill and Lady Randolph Churchill.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Papers of Lady Randolph Churchill, mainly letters to her son, John S Churchill [known as "Jack"], 1893 - 1927
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PCHL 1
Scope and Contents
The letters included in this section of the collection shed light on the closeness of Lady Randolph and her sons, especially the letters in PCHL 1/5 which touch on her plans to marry George Cornwallis West, and she freely and frequently confides details of her financial worries. She reflects also on Winston Churchill's career plans and encourages Jack to further his own career and to think carefully about the options which are available to him. The letters also provide evidence of the highly...
Dates:
1893 - 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Papers relating to Lady Randolph Churchill, 1870 - 1955
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW IV
Scope and Contents
This series consists of: a set of scripts for plays written by Lady Randolph, with related correspondence and other papers on the plays' production; a number of photograph albums and loose photographs, including two albums relating to Lady Randolph's work on the hospital ship, Maine, during the Boer War; a set of sheet music belonging to Lady Randolph.
Dates:
1870 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Broadwater Collection
File
Personal: Lady Randolph Churchill: Correspondence, c.1911-28 Mar 1916 and [c.1962-c.1974]
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/1/3
Scope and Contents
Comprising letters from Lady Randolph Churchill to WSC, with an envelope with a typed list of all the letters (except one undated letter) labelled "Chartwell papers 28/153" [incorrect reference], and envelopes describing some of the letters in CSC's handwriting.
Dates:
c.1911-28 Mar 1916 and [c.1962-c.1974]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Item
Photograph of Lady Randolph Churchill's funeral, 1921-07-02
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW V 3/10/6 recto
Scope and Contents
Photograph of the family gathered round the grave of Lady Randolph Churchill [earlier Jennie Jerome] in front of St Martin's Church in Bladon [Oxfordshire]. From left to right are: WSC, partially obscured by [? CSC] in a long black coat and dress and black veiled hat; then a small boy, John G Churchill, throwing some flowers into the grave; then an unidentified man with a moustache, carrying his hat and cane and looking at the camera; then Oswald Frewen with his hat on his arm, standing...
Dates:
1921-07-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original
File
Photographs and drawings for the official biography, 1874-08 - 1900-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/RDCH 9/1/24
Scope and Contents
Photographs for Volume I of the official biography, "Winston S Churchill" by Randolph Churchill and Martin Gilbert (not all used): coloured print of John, Duke of Marlborough; ? Leonard Jerome and Clara Jerome; Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill on their engagement, 1874; Lady Randolph in riding habit with whip, Ireland, c 1877; Lord Randolph in fur coat, c 1884; WSC's prep school, Brighton [Sussex], during the Golden Jubilee, 1887; Lady Randolph, 1888-89; WSC in a school group at Mr...
Dates:
1874-08 - 1900-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. The catalogue includes details of some material in the collection which is currently too fragile to be produced and researchers should seek advice from Archives Centre staff about accessing this material.
File
Photographs and drawings for the official biography, 1892 - 1899
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/RDCH 9/1/25
Scope and Contents
Leather wallet containing copies of three pencil sketches of Pamela Plowden [later Pamela, Lady Lytton] (1892) and one of Lady Randolph Churchill, possibly by Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland, which WSC took to the Boer War, December 1899.
Dates:
1892 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. The catalogue includes details of some material in the collection which is currently too fragile to be produced and researchers should seek advice from Archives Centre staff about accessing this material.
File
Photographs of Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill and of Winston Churchill as a child, 1871 - 1970-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 6/2/6
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Lady Randolph [earlier Jennie Jerome], including with her sisters, with her sons, with the executive committee of the hospital ship Maine during the Boer War, with the composer Sir [Charles] Hubert Parry, and on her marriage to George Cornwallis-West; Lord Randolph Churchill as a child, young man and in later years; Leonard Jerome; Winston Churchill as a small boy, including with his mother and brother John "Jack" Churchill, in a sailor suit, with his aunt Leonie Leslie...
Dates:
1871 - 1970-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Photographs relating to Lady Randolph Churchill and family, 1850-08 - 1921
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PCHL 8/6
Scope and Contents
Includes: Clara Jerome, Lady Randolph's mother; invitation card to the party where Lady Randolph (Jennie Jerome) met Lord Randolph Churchill; Lady Randolph at the piano; Lady Randolph with Winston Churchill and John S Churchill (Jack Churchill); Lady Randolph as the Empress Theodora; Lady Randolph working in her cabin on the hospital ship Maine; Lady Randolph with Peregrine Churchill; Lady Randolph with [?] Peregrine Churchill, Johnny Churchill and Clarissa Churchill; Lady Randolph's...
Dates:
1850-08 - 1921
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Scrapbook of presscuttings, letters, cards and sketches on Lord Randolph Churchill, Lady Randolph Churchill and WSC, 1803 - 1944
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW II 10
Scope and Contents
Includes some loose papers and photographs.
Dates:
1803 - 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.