'Declaring the Poll at Epping', 1924, (1945). British politician and statesman Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) and his wife Clementine listen to the official declaration after he won the seat of Epping in Essex. He had stood as a Constitutionalist in the General Election, and was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in Baldwin's Conservative government. Churchill was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955. From "The Life and Times of Winston Churchill", by Malcolm Thomson. [Odhams Press Limited, London]