Winston Churchill Winston Leonard Spencer - Churchill , ( AUDIO : " Living History " ) also known as Winston Churchill , was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II and later during the 1950s . Biography . Early life . Churchill was born in 1874 . ( PROSE : " The Witch Hunters " , " Childhood Living " , PROSE : " The Lost Diaries of Winston Spencer Churchill " ) In 1879 , on Churchill ' s fifth birthday , someone that young Winston interpreted to be a Punch and Judy man arrived and began tracking a miniature crocodile . The man , who wore a long multi - coloured scarf , called Churchill " Winnie . " Churchill found himself enjoying the company of the strange man . The figure , actually the Fourth Doctor eventually caught and smashed the crocodile , actually a Cybermat , before disappearing in his Punch and Judy box . That night , Churchill noted in his diary " It was a good birthday . " In his youth , Churchill attended St George ' s Preparatory School in Ascot . He was not fond of or good at learning Latin , and because of this he was assigned a special tutor that lived in a cubby . Churchill found the new teacher strange , but at the same time very wise and good for conversation . On one occasion , Churchill asked why " Mensa " meant both " table " and " O table " . The figured frowned , and responded that one could use the later to address a table . Churchill was highly amused by this . On the morning of 18 March 1882 , Churchill was sad to learn that the teacher had disappeared with no sign of where he had left to . While in Havana , Cuba in 1895 , Churchill discovered a box of cigars sent by an unknown person . Excited to celebrate 21 years of life , he prepared to light one up before being stopped by a thin man , who ran in through the room ' s windows , splashed Churchill was water , and left with the remains of the cigars . Evidently , again unbeknownst to Churchill , the cigars were actually Sontaran grenades meant to change history by killing Churchill . After leaving , the man quickly bobbed back into the room and quipped " Nice to see you again , Winnie ! " Winston felt a rush of childhood nostalgia , although he wasn ' t sure why . In 1898 , Churchill found himself taking a stroll by the River Nile , which he found beautiful despite the oppressive heat . Settling down to drink several glasses of wine , he found himself in a heated debate with a lanky , beak - nosed cove in a ruffled shirt about what was the best form of defending ones - self . The two briefly struggled physically , but after a few more drinks they become " firm friends . " What happened next is unclear , although some sources clearly document this as the encounter wherein Winston discovered the true nature of the Doctor and his travels . He was brought to a police box in the desert , which he noticed as the same one used by his tutor in prep school , and eventually discovered that it was immeasurably bigger - on - the - inside . The team ended up travelling to the Great Pyramid of Giza , where they defeated the last of the Osirans . ( PROSE : " The Lost Diaries of Winston Spencer Churchill " ) In November 1899 , Churchill was a newspaper correspondent in the second Boer War . The Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown saved him from an assassin . The Doctor spent some time with Churchill in a Boer prison before both escaped . Churchill escaped thanks to a Player contact while the Doctor regained access to the TARDIS after it had been taken for study . ( PROSE : " Players " ) Political career . In 1909 , a suffragette interrupted an official meeting of Winston Churchill . ( PROSE : " Birthright " ) In World War I , he was appointed Minister of Defence . His plan to attack Germany via Turkey failed , prompting him to resign and return to the army as a Major . During an ambush , he was rescued by Lieutenant Jeremy Carstairs , Lady Jennifer Buckingham and the Second Doctor ; having recently ended the War Games , the Doctor had asked to confirm the participants ' return to their own times . After being captured by the Players , the Doctor sacrificed himself to help Churchill and his friends escape the Players ' attempt to send Churchill to Berlin . Having returned to Britain , Churchill remained in the army for a year before returning to the government , feeling that he had redeemed himself of his past mistakes , and was involved in the construction and deployment of the tank , which turned the tide in the war . ( PROSE : " Players " ) During his career , Churchill was an MP for the Conservative Party , the Labour Party and the Liberal Party . He proved a difficult man to work with and eventually grew fed up with his party as they grew impatient with him . As such , he fell out of favour , ( WC : " Amy ' s History Hunt " ) meaning few people listened to his warnings about the threat posed by Nazi Germany in 1933 . He did , however , attract sympathisers within the British Security Services . ( PROSE : " Log 384 " ) In 1936 , Churchill ' s career was in decline because he opposed the government ' s appeasement of Adolf Hitler . He was reunited with the Sixth Doctor and Peri — the two posing as the children of their Boer War selves to account for their lack of ageing , the Doctor passing off Peri ' s enthusiastic greeting by saying that their " parents " had told them many stories about their time with Churchill — and worked with them to thwart King Edward VIII ' s plans to dismiss the government and appoint one sympathetic to Hitler . ( PROSE : " Players " ) Later that year , the Doctor met Churchill in an encounter that ( according to one account at least ) resulted in Churchill learning the truth about the Doctor ' s true identity . He also met the Eleventh Doctor at the fire of the Crystal Palace on 30 November 1936 . ( COMIC : " The Eagle of the Reich " ) On the outbreak of the Second World War , Churchill ' s fears about the Nazis were confirmed and he consequently came back into favour . ( WC : " Amy ' s History Hunt " ) He served in he government as First Lord of the Admiralty , and gained a secretary named Hetty Warner . In late November 1939 , he met the Ninth Doctor for the first time . He encountered a mechanical soldier named RATS , and suggested that it would be useful for the war effort . ( AUDIO : " The Oncoming Storm " ) As the British prime minister . Churchill became elected as British prime minister . Shortly after his election , he visited the Sontaran , Brak , and learned about the existence of aliens . ( AUDIO : " Old Soldiers " ) He succeeded Neville Chamberlain , prime minister of the pre - war years who had tried to maintain the peace . ( PROSE : " Illegal Alien " , " One Wednesday Afternoon " ) The Sixth Doctor once told a tale of how the Allied defeat at Dunkirk in 1940 left Churchill dispirited . The Doctor was able to convince Churchill to fight on , which he added might lead to Britain ' s " finest hour " . The Doctor finished the story by saying : " Churchill brightened up , lit one of his big cigar s , gave me a victory sign , and went out and won the war . " ( AUDIO : " The Ultimate Adventure " ) At some point in 1940 , Churchill gave a speech about how they should keep fighting the Nazi s , " We Shall Fight on the Beaches " . ( TV : " The Lie of the Land " ) Panda also claimed to have encouraged Churchill during the war . He told Patrick Matthewman that he was the person who " advised Churchill to ' Keep Buggering On ' in the first place " . ( PROSE : " Project : Wildthyme " ) At some point in 1941 , two Dalek s were presented to Winston by Edwin Bracewell as man - made superweapons . Churchill named them " ironsides " . Unsure what to make of them , he telephoned the Eleventh Doctor . ( TV : " The Beast Below " , " Victory of the Daleks " ) By the time the Doctor arrived a month later , Winston was sure the " ironsides " would win the war . The Doctor tried to make Churchill understand the Daleks ' true nature , but Winston would not listen , insisting they would be a vital weapon against Nazi Germany . The Daleks showed their true intentions once the Doctor had given his " testimony " . They created a new race of pure Daleks which tried to destroy London by making it vulnerable to German bombers . The solution to defeating them lay with Bracewell , so Winston and Amy Pond talked him out of committing suicide and into helping them . Churchill told Bracewell , " It ' s time to think big " , giving him the idea to use modified Spitfires . Following the Daleks ' escape , the Doctor removed all of the alien technology . While Winston protested that it and the Doctor could win him the war in a day , the Doctor told him the Empire would come through without it and himself . Churchill hugged the Doctor farewell and picked the TARDIS key from the Doctor ' s pocket . Amy noticed and made him give it back . ( TV : " Victory of the Daleks " ) Some time after those events , Bracewell got his hands on one of the final paintings by Vincent van Gogh , found in an attic in France . He showed it to Churchill . Without understanding what it meant , they recognised it as a message for the Doctor . Churchill tried to telephone the Doctor , but was diverted to River Song in the 52nd century , alerting her to its existence . ( TV : " The Pandorica Opens " ) At another point during this year , he encountered the Tenth Doctor . ( AUDIO : " Hounded " ) In December 1941 , the Twelfth Doctor called Churchill ' s number on his superphone to get the Allies to order a strike the Sontaran world engine weapon the Warsong after it was claimed by the Rutan Heinz Bruckner in the Sahara Desert . ( COMIC : " The Instruments of War " ) The Sixth Doctor contacted Churchill in 1944 to ask for Churchill ' s help in helping him infiltrate the Nazi army so that he could take part in an upcoming raid on the village of Turelhampton , as part of an investigation he was carrying out in the future . Although the Doctor was only able to offer Churchill limited information about why he was doing this , the Doctor ' s past record left Churchill confident that the Doctor ' s motives were good , and he was able to convince other members of his cabinet to agree to the plan . ( PROSE : " The Shadow in the Glass " ) On 8 May 1945 , Churchill made a speech at Trafalgar Square because of VE Day . ( PROSE : " Magic of the Angels " ) After WWII . At the first election after the war , Churchill was voted out of office , as the British public had grown exhausted by years of war and wanted a change . ( WC : " Amy ' s History Hunt " ) Feeling " rejected " by the British people , Churchill turned his attention to writing . He began working on " A History of the English - Speaking Peoples " . As he was writing the first volume , he was visited by the Eleventh Doctor and Kazran Sardick . Churchill travelled with them in the TARDIS to ancient Britain during the Roman occupation , where they encountered Julius Caesar and a Dalek . ( AUDIO : " Living History " ) Churchill ' s book s won him the Nobel Prize . ( WC : " Amy ' s History Hunt " ) By 1952 , he had later returned to the role of Prime Minister , ( AUDIO : " The British Invasion " ) still holding the position by 1954 , ( PROSE : " The Witch Hunters " ) by which point he was 80 years old . ( PROSE : " Childhood Living " ) Sylvia O ' Donnell , a British Nazi sympathiser whose German husband Heinrich was a Waffen - SS officer during the Second World War , blamed Churchill for the outbreak of the Mau Mau Uprising in British Kenya in 1953 . She described him as " a senile old man . " ( AUDIO : " A Thousand Tiny Wings " ) By the 1960s , he had retired to his home in Chartwell after his physical strength began to deteriorate . He was cared for by Lily Arwell . To committed the remainder of his life to writing about his life and experiences . ( AUDIO : " The Chartwell Metamorphosis " ) Upon his death , Churchill became one of the few British civilians to receive a state funeral . ( WC : " Amy ' s History Hunt " ) Legacy . The makers of EarthWorld believed that Churchill had famous seaside boxing matches . This was result of his speech , " We will fight them on the beaches " , and its distortion over time . ( PROSE : " EarthWorld " ) Prime Minister Harold Saxon was described as " a modern Churchill " by Vivien Rook in 2008 . ( TV : " The Sound of Drums " ) In 2009 , then - current Prime Minister Brian Green had a small caricature figure of Churchill in his office . ( TV : " Children of Earth " ) When the Monks invaded Earth , they spread out fake news by contaminating people ' s memories to let them think they had been on Earth from the beginning . One of these were Churchill ' s speech about fighting the Nazi s . ( TV : " The Lie of the Land " ) References . The Doctor claimed to have thought up the " blood , sweat and tears " speech for him . ( AUDIO : " The Ultimate Adventure " ) The Fourth Doctor recalled Winston ' s claim that democracy was a very inefficient form of government , but still better than anything else that had ever been tried . ( PROSE : " The Eight Doctors " ) The Eighth Doctor had Churchill ' s autograph . He had obtained this during the hundred years which he spent on Earth . ( PROSE : " The Tomorrow Windows " ) When Clyde Langer was sent through a time window to 1941 , he said what he remembered of Churchill ' s speech to George Woods while spying on a group of Nazi s landing on the coast . " We shall fight them on the beaches , we shall fight them in the . . . other places . " ( TV : " Lost in Time " ) The Tenth Doctor briefly mentioned him when visiting England in 1953 with Rose Tyler . ( TV : " The Idiot ' s Lantern " ) Liz Shaw ' s mother Dame Emily Shaw was a friend of Churchill , whom she affectionately referred to as " Old Winnie " following his death . The Third Doctor reminded her of Churchill . ( AUDIO : " The Last Post " ) An android replica of Churchill was among a succession of android British Prime Ministers from Robert Walpole to Margaret Thatcher created by Tasq . ( PROSE : " Time Wake " ) Other timelines . In an alternate timeline in which Germany won World War II , Churchill was executed as a war criminal . ( PROSE : " " ) In a timeline where River Song caused time to collapse when she refused to kill the Doctor , Winston Churchill was the Holy Roman Emperor in Britain and had had many negotiations with Cleopatra . He was one of a minority who noticed that time never moved and it was always two past five in the afternoon of 22 April , 2011 . He was also involved in the Conquest of Gaul . The Doctor , whom Winston knew as a soothsayer , was locked up in the Tower of London . His presence was demanded to explain the problem with time . The Doctor told him the story of how he had gotten there . As he did , they had several run - ins with Silent s , although neither of them could remember . Just as the Doctor got to the end , the two discovered hundreds of Silents hanging above them from the ceiling of the Senate Room . At that moment they were saved by Amy and her soldiers . ( TV : " The Wedding of River Song " ) Personality . Brak regarded Churchill as a ruthless war leader , and compared his nature with that of a Sontaran . ( AUDIO : " Old Soldiers " ) Winston Churchill was a close friend of the Doctor , meeting him in several of his incarnations . When the Eleventh Doctor arrived , he greeted him by having his men point guns at him , though he clearly had no intention of shooting him . The two of them acted as though it was a sort of game . They also displayed their close friendship by hugging each other before the Doctor left . Winston had an obsession with being able to pilot the Doctor ' s TARDIS , even stealing the TARDIS key at one point . He gave it back as soon as Amy noticed he had taken it . Churchill cared a great deal about his country and the lives of his citizens and was eager to use the TARDIS to save lives . However , because he had no knowledge of the laws of time , the Doctor repeatedly refused to give him access to the TARDIS . Churchill was also a good and strong leader and the Doctor told him that many people saw him as a beacon of hope . ( TV : " Victory of the Daleks " ) Behind the scenes . Brilliant books 2012 . According to " The Brilliant Book 2012 " , which this wiki , the alternate Churchill in the timeline River Song created was available on social - networking sites , where he was friends with Cleopatra . Doctor Who Annual . According to " Doctor Who The Official Annual 2011 " , which this wiki , in a timeline in which the Doctor did not find the Ironsides , they turned the tide of the war and took the fight to Germany . After the war was won , Churchill was pressured by Stalin and Truman into having the Ironsides destroyed by a nuclear bomb .