United States ambassador to Great Britain 1941-46. Born New York City. Succeeded the pro-appeasement ambassador, Joseph Kennedy, Winant was with Churchill when news arrived of the attack on Pearl Harbour. Married with children, he had an affair with Sarah, Winston Churchill's second daughter.
On the day his book 'Letter from Grosvenor Square' was published he died by suicide, shooting himself in the head, at his home in Concord, New Hampshire.
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John Gilbert Winant
John Gilbert Winant, 1889 - 1947, United States Ambassador, 1941 - 1946, live...
Winant House A tribute to Londoners courage;Â a reminder of two countries nev...
Businessman elected by Westminster St James Vestry to be a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works, 1856 - 1877.  Died at home in St John's Wood. Â
From Yorkshire. MP for Scarborough and then Knaresborough. Colonel of a regiment of foot in Cromwell's Parliamentary army, governor of Gloucester and one of the signatories to the death warrant of ...
First recorded in Norman times as part of the royal demesne. It had a long succession of owners and tenants who held rights over the area.
Born East London, 36 Broad Street Buildings.
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