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Grace Hamblin

OBE
Born
Grace Hamblin

(1908-01-01)1 January 1908
Kent, England
Died15 October 2002(2002-10-15) (aged 94)
Westerham, Kent, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationSecretary
Known forPrivate secretary to Sir Winston and Clementine Churchill
ChildrenNone

Grace Hamblin

Winston Churchill and Lady Clementine Churchill from the early 1930s, until their deaths. She subsequently served as the first curator at Chartwell, the Churchills' country home in Kent
.

Life

Hamblin was born in Kent in 1908, the daughter of the head gardener at an estate adjacent to Chartwell.

portrait of Churchill was revealed.[7] Presented to Churchill by the Houses of Lords and Commons as an 80th birthday present, the realistic portrait was detested by both Churchill and his wife and, acting on Lady Churchill's instructions, Hamblin and her brother removed the painting from Chartwell at some point in the mid-1950s and burnt it.[8] Hamblin retired from the post of Administrator at Chartwell in 1973.[6]

Hamblin died in 2002 at her home at

Churchill College, Cambridge.[9]

Notes

  1. ^ Churchill bequeathed Hamblin the sum of £500 in his will.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Grace Hamblin obituary". Daily Telegraph. 17 October 2002.
  2. ^ a b Stelzer 2019, p. 45.
  3. ^ Garnett 2008, p. 35.
  4. ^ "Chartwell: The National Trust Story". National Trust. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  5. ^ Fedden 1974, p. 3.
  6. ^ a b Langworth, Richard M. (31 October 2015). "Grace Hamblin, Total Churchillian". Hillsdale College.
  7. ^ Robinson, Joanna (7 November 2016). "The Secret Churchill Caper That Netflix's The Crown Didn't Show". Vanity Fair.
  8. ^ Furness, Hannah (10 July 2015). "Secret of Winston Churchill's unpopular Sutherland portrait revealed". Daily Telegraph.
  9. ^ "The Papers of Grace Hamblin". Churchill Archives Centre. Retrieved 6 October 2021.

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