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A unique personal letter from Churchill is up for auction this week – written in gratitude to the Harrow maths master without whom Young Winston might never have become the man he did. All the details are below.
Better still, the seller has pledged to donate the sale proceeds to Reform UK, to boost our campaign that has already injected life into this zombie election.
So, to own a piece of the towering figure in modern British history, and at the same time help us forge a better future for Britain – log in and bid below!
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The man who made Churchill’s career possible: The remarkable letter Young Winston wrote to the maths teacher who turned around his life goes up for auction.
A touching personal letter from Britain’s wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the Harrow mathematics master he thanks for “the most salutary mental discipline I ever received” is to be auctioned this week by Noonans of Mayfair, London.
Handwritten in October 1906, when Churchill, then aged 31, was serving in his first ministerial post as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, the letter is addressed to Charles Mayo, who had been young Winston’s maths teacher at Harrow public school.
it is being sold as the final lot in Noonans' Wednesday sale, with an estimate of £6,000 – £8,000 but it is believed bidding could go much higher.
The seller has pledged to donate the proceeds to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, to help fund the party’s general election campaign.
Churchill’s letter praises “My Dear Mr Mayo” as “the only person who ever succeeded in teaching me mathematics or – let me add – in making me work at anything that did not excite my interest. I regard my work under your care as the most salutary mental discipline I ever received.”
In his final year at Harrow in 1892, Churchill needed to pass stiff exams to gain entry to Sandhurst, the British Army’s famous officer training academy.
He failed his maths exam miserably at the first attempt, achieving only 500 marks out of a possible 2500. Under Mr Mayo’s tutelage, however, on his second attempt Churchill scored almost 2000 marks.
He attributed this remarkable improvement to the Harrow master who, the letter says, was the only man to succeed in making him master the “detestable subject” of mathematics. “I do not remember,” writes Winston, “ever having to face such a dead uphill pull as I had to under your instruction for my Sandhurst examinations”.
Moreover, he notes, the “memory of those exertions & of your kindness & care” had helped to stand Churchill in good stead for later life: “although the knowledge is gone, the faculty no doubt remains in a greater power of appreciation than I should otherwise have developed”.
Interested buyers can bid for the letter online here:
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If he had failed, Churchill might never have entered the elite officer’s school and gone onto serve in India, Africa and the trenches of the First World, laying the military foundation for his subsequent political career which included stints as Home Secretary, War Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and, of course, as the Prime Minister who saved Britain from the Nazis in World War II.
In Charles Mayo’s 1928 autobiography, Reminiscences of a Harrow Master, he wrote glowingly of the young Winston. In praise of ‘fagging’, the system whereby younger boys at public schools such as Harrow carried out duties for the seniors - to which Churchill was himself subjected - Mayo wrote: "Those who hope to rule must first learn to obey... to learn to obey as a fag is part of the routine that is the essence of the English Public School system... the wonder of other countries”.
Winston Churchill maintained an affection for Harrow throughout his life and often expressed his gratitude to the maths teacher who helped him pass his exams for Sandhurst. Charles Mayo was a guest at Churchill's wedding in 1908.
In 1941 Churchill delivered one of his most famous speeches of the Second World War at his old school, when he uttered the immortal line: “Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.”
Pierce Noonan, CEO of Noonans Mayfair Auctioneers said: “Churchill was a prolific letter writer, however, most of the letters that appear on the open market are not of a personal nature and this letter written whilst Churchill was in his first government post at the Colonial Office provides a fascinating and amusing insight into both Churchill’s gratitude to his old Harrow master, Charles Mayo and loathing of the subject of mathematics.
“One might even conjecture that were it not for the attention that Charles Mayo gave to the young Winston Churchill he might never have passed his entrance exams to Sandhurst and the course of history may have been very different.”
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