 Complete the following phrase:  Of mixed English and American parentage, Churchill was born in Oxfordshire to a wealthy, aristocratic family. He joined the British Army in 1895 and saw action in British India, the Anglo-Sudan War, and the Second Boer War, gaining fame as a war correspondent and writing books about his campaigns. Elected a Conservative MP in 1900, he defected to the Liberals in 1904. In H. H. Asquiths Liberal government, Churchill served as President of the Board of Trade and Home Secretary, championing prison reform and workers social security. As First Lord of the Admiralty during the First World War, he oversaw the 