* Anthony Cave Brown, " C ": The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill, 1987, published by Macmillan, New York.

* June 30 – Winston Graham, English writer ( d. 2003 )

Poldark author Winston Graham knew the town well and set his novel The Forgotten Story ( 1945 ) in Falmouth.

Pasties also appear in the Poldark series of historical novels of Cornwall, by Winston Graham, as well as the BBC television series adapted from these works.

The Poldark Novels are a historical fictional sequence by Winston Graham.

Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE ( 30 June 1908 – 10 July 2003 ) was an English novelist, best known for the Poldark novels series of historical fiction.

To celebrate the centenary of his birth, the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro, Cornwall, had an exhibition devoted to his life and works ( Poldark's Cornwall: The Life and Times of Winston Graham ) from mid-June to mid-September 2008, coinciding with re-publication of the Poldark novels by Pan Macmillan.

The Winston Graham Historical Prize was initiated as part of the Centenary Celebrations.

The majority of Winston Graham's manuscripts and papers have been donated to the Royal Institute of Cornwall by his son, Andrew Graham, and daughter, Rosamund Barteau.

* Official Winston Graham and Poldark web site authorised by his literary executors

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David Dickinson, John Prescott, Robin Cook, Gandalf, David Cameron, Magneto and Ian McKellen, Professor Robert Winston, Dr Rowan Williams, David Blunkett, Tom Paulin, Saddam Hussein, Peter Mandelson, Graham Norton, Martin Jarvis, Trevor McDonald ( on radio ), Bob Geldof, Ken Livingstone, Brian Blessed, Luciano Pavarotti, Monty Don, Richard Briers, Patrick Stewart, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Toby Ziegler, Donald Rumsfeld, Adam Hart-Davis, Hannibal Lecter ( on radio ), Lord Voldemort ( on radio ), Hercule Poirot, Second Doctor & Patrick Troughton, Bernard Matthews, Rocky Balboa, Al Gore, George Lamb

That same year she co-starred with Sean Connery in a second Hitchcock film, Marnie ( 1964 ), a romantic drama and psychological thriller from the novel by Winston Graham.

The First International Congress of Eugenics in 1912 was supported by many prominent persons, including: its president Leonard Darwin, the son of Charles Darwin ; honorary vice-president Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty and future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ; Auguste Forel, famous Swiss pathologist ; Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone ; among other prominent people.

* First International Congress of Eugenics held in London with the support of Leonard Darwin, Winston Churchill, Auguste Forel, Alexander Graham Bell, Charles Davenport and other prominent scientists.

Its plot ( concerned with a German commando unit sent into England to kidnap Winston Churchill ) was fresh and innovative ( although the plot is clearly reminiscent of Alberto Cavalcanti's wartime film Went the Day Well ?, which itself was directly based on the 1942 Graham Greene short story The Lieutenant Died Last ), and the characters had significantly more depth than in his earlier work.

These include motor engineer and designer Donald Healey ( who opened the first garage / petrol station in the village in 1919 ; a nearby cider farm run by a grandson of his has a detailed graphic display about his life ) and the author Winston Graham ( who lived in Perranporth for many years and whose Poldark novels are based on the area ).

The original line-up included Allan Clarke as lead vocalist, Graham Nash as guitarist and vocalist, Vic Steele ( born Victor Winston Farrell, 8 May 1945, Manchester ) on guitar, with Eric Haydock on bass guitar and Don Rathbone on drums ( born Donald Rathbone, October 1942, Wilmslow, Cheshire ).

* Cordelia Blake, titular character of the novel Cordelia by Winston Graham, published in 1949

Winston took out a pencil, admired the point, and wrote slowly and heavily, `` Clothes Stand ''.

Jenkins wrote 19 books, including a biography of Gladstone ( 1995 ), which won the 1995 Whitbread Award for Biography, and a much-acclaimed biography of Winston Churchill ( 2001 ).

Prime Minister Winston Churchill wrote " The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

Lord Hailsham wrote to Prime Minister Winston Churchill to advise the evacuation of the princesses to the greater safety of Canada, to which their mother famously replied " The children won't go without me.

Winston Churchill wrote under the pen name Winston S. Churchill ( from his full surname " Spencer-Churchill " which he did not otherwise use ) in an attempt to avoid confusion with the American novelist of the same name.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill wrote that Number 10 was " shaky and lightly built by the profiteering contractor whose name they bear.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill later wrote in his memoirs of the role the Résistance played in the liberation of Brittany, " The French Resistance Movement, which here numbered 30, 000 men, played a notable part, and the peninsula was quickly overrun.

Winston Churchill later wrote of him that he was the man " who made the weather ".

In her 1977 autobiography A Life of Contrasts she wrote " I didn't love Hitler any more than I did Winston.

It was in response to Macaulay's History that Winston Churchill wrote his four-volume work, Marlborough: His Life and Times ( published from 1933 – 1938 ).

Sir Winston Churchill wrote to him saying that no-one need enter the chapel unless they wished to do so, and therefore it did not need to be a problem.

Under the reign of the restored King Constantine I, Greece went on to lose the Greco-Turkish war with heavy military and civilian casualties ; Winston Churchill later wrote that " it was a monkey bite that caused the death of those 250, 000 people.

They are being ruthless and most determined .” After the July 1934 Night of The Long Knives, in which the Nazis ruthlessly exterminated their internal dissidents, Reith wrote: “ I really admire the way Hitler has cleaned up what looked like an incipient revolt .” After Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Nazis in 1939 he wrote: “ Hitler continues his magnificent efficiency .” Reith also expressed admiration for Mussolini .. Reith's daughter, Marista Leishman, revealed how her father in the 1930s did everything possible to keep Winston Churchill and other anti-appeasement Conservatives off the airwaves.

George Orwell wrote his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four on the isolated island of Jura, Scotland to describe how a man ( Winston Smith ) attempts to develop critical conscience in a totalitarian state which watches every action of the people and manipulates their thinking with a mixture of propaganda, endless war and thought control through language control ( double think and newsspeak ) to the point where prisoners look up to and even love their torturers.

Plumb wrote: " This history will endure ; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues — its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire thought and felt about their country's past.

The year marked several publications on the literarily influential Boer Wars: Winston Churchill, the future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and a major Allied political figure in World War II penned a memoir, Ian Hamilton's March, describing his experiences accompanying the British army during the Second Boer War, and Arthur Conan Doyle ( famous as the creator of Sherlock Holmes ) wrote on the subject in his The Great Boer War.

Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty at London, wrote: " He was a cut flower in a vase, fair to see yet bound to die.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill wrote that Number 10 was " shaky and lightly built by the profiteering contractor whose name they bear.

Winston Churchill later wrote " In Sir Henry Wilson the War Cabinet found for the first time an expert advisor of superior intellect, who could explain lucidly and forcefully the whole situation and give reasons for the adoption or rejection of any course ".

He was the father of Winston Churchill, the future wartime Prime Minister, who wrote his father's first major biography.

He wrote of World War II in several other books, including his second of a planned three-part biography of Winston Churchill, and a biography of General Douglas MacArthur, American Caesar.

This theory was believed by Winston Churchill, who wrote in 1920: " This movement conspiracy against civilization dates from the days of Weishaupt ... as a modern historian Mrs. Webster has so ably shown, it played a recognisable role on the French Revolution.