sentences:  In the event, Randolph never sat in Parliament after losing his only seat there in 1945 and indeed was to die only three years after his father, so the dukedom would have had no effect on his career.Randolph's oldest son Winston did serve in the Commons from 1970 until 1997, but by that time provision existed for disclaiming a hereditary peerage.In 1913, Churchill was appointed an "Elder Brother" of Trinity House as result of his appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty.