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Winston Churchill lived in the Phoenix Park when he was a child in the 1870s (in Ratra House, formerly known as Little Lodge). His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was Private Secretary to his own father, the Duke of Marlborough, then Lord
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Winston Churchill could remember. In 1876, Churchill's grandfather, the Duke of Marlborough, was appointed as Viceroy to Ireland and he appointed his son, Randolph Churchill, rather of Winston, as his Private
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