Lord Randolph was not “banished” to Ireland, though it was an exile. The man’s name was Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston Churchill’s father. . The Conservative, Lord Randolph Churchill, and the Liberal, Joseph Chamberlain, were prominent in Irish political affairs from the mid 1870s. 10. Lord Randolph Churchill, the son of the Duke of Marlborough, was already waging a lively campaign both against Gladstone, his natural target, and against the leader of his own party in the House of Commons, Sir Stafford Northcote. His grandfather, the Duke of Marlborough, was Viceroy of Ireland and Churchill's father, Lord Randolph, served as the Duke's secretary. Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born into aristocracy in the grand family home of Bleinhem Palace, the seat of his grandfather the 7th Duke of Marlborough, on 30 November 1874. "The Orange card was the one to play", wrote a leading Conservative, Lord Randolph Churchill, who also coined the watchword "Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right." . His widow, née Jennie Jerome, was an American-born heiress. Lord Randolph Churchill (National Trust, Chartwell; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation) Lord Randolph and the Aylesford Sports ... Exile in Ireland. The stabbing of Lord Frederick Cavendish, the chief secretary for Ireland, by four knife-wielding Irish extremists who butchered Cavendish in Dublin’s Phoenix Park, became part of Churchill lore. Yet he was strangely oblivious to the widespread, albeit not universal, hostility still felt towards him in nationalist Ireland. Feb. 2021. Lord Randolph Churchill — Part 2 — A flash in the pan. Churchill’s father, Lord Randolph, died young. . When Gladstone introduced his Home Rule Bill in 1886, his Conservative opponents formed a political alliance with the Ulster Protestants which was to last almost a century. Although on opposite sides of the House, they united in 1886 and again in 1893 to defeat the first and second Home Rule Bills. In 1876, Randolph was exiled to Ireland after what Wikipedia describes as a farrago with the Prince of Wales, and this was before Randolph suspected him of having an affair with his wife. In Lord Bew’s call to arms to save “the Union” from the backstop are the not so faint echoes of Lord Randolph Churchill’s playing of the Orange Card to further the Tory agenda. So, Alexander Fleming’s father saved a young Winston Churchill from drowning in a bog. In 1953 he faced a libel action in Ireland arising out of his memoirs. > Lord Randolph Churchill. Churchill’s Britain: So Much More Still Needs to Be Done. LUAIN -- On February 22, 1886, Conservative Party politician Lord Randolph Churchill, father of Winston Churchill, gave what many consider one of the single most destructive speeches in Irish history, inciting militant loyalists at Ulster Hall in Belfast.