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Lady Randolph Churchill
American-born British socialite (1854–1921)
Jeanette "Jennie" Spencer-Churchill[1]CI RRC DStJ (née Jerome; 9 January 1854[2] – 29 June 1921), known as Lady Randolph Spencer-Churchill,[a] was an American-born British socialite, the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill, and the mother of British prime minister Winston Churchill.
Early life
Jennie[b] Jerome was born in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn in 1854,[3] the second of four daughters (one died in childhood) of financier, sportsman, and speculator Leonard Jerome and his wife Clarissa (always called Clara[4]), daughter of Ambrose Hall, a landowner.
Jerome's father was of Huguenot extraction, his forebears having emigrated to America from the Isle of Wight in 1710.[5] Hall family lore insists that Jennie had Iroquois ancestry through her maternal grandmother;[6] however, there is no research or ev