Mary Soames, Baroness Soames LG DBE FRSL (born Mary Spencer-Churchill; 15 September 1922 – 31 May 2014) was the youngest of the five children of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine. Until her death, she was their only surviving child.[1]
Soames was born in Chartwell, Westerham, Kent. She was married to Christopher Soames, Baron Soames or The Lord Soames from 1947 until his death in 1987. The two had five children, Nicholas, Emma, Jeremy, Charlotte and Rupert.
Soames died after a short illness on 31 May 2014 in London, aged 91.[2]
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| 1970s | |
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| 1980s |
- R. J. W. Evans / F. S. L. Lyons (1980)
- J. W. Burrow (1981)
- John McManners (1982)
- Martin Gilbert / Kenneth Rose (1983)
- Antonia Fraser / Maurice Keen (1984)
- Richard Davenport-Hines / John Grigg (1985)
- J. H. Elliott / Jonathan Israel (1986)
- Rees Davies / John Pemble (1987)
- no award (1988)
- Richard Evans / Paul Kennedy (1989)
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| 1990s |
- Richard A. Fletcher / Donald Cameron Watt (1990)
- Colin Platt (1991)
- John Bossy / Alan Bullock (1992)
- Linda Colley / Robert Skidelsky (1993)
- Robert Bartlett / Barbara Harvey (1994)
- Fiona MacCarthy / John C. G. Röhl (1995)
- H. C. G. Matthew (1996)
- Orlando Figes (1997)
- John Brewer / Patricia Hollis (1998)
- Antony Beevor / Amanda Vickery (1999)
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| 2000s |
- Joanna Bourke / Andrew Roberts (2000)
- Ian Kershaw / Mark Mazower / Roy Porter (2001)
- Barry Cunliffe / Jerry White (2002)
- William Dalrymple / Robert Gildea (2003)
- Frances Harris / Julian T. Jackson / Diarmaid MacCulloch (2004)
- Richard Overy / David Reynolds (2005)
- Evelyn Welch / Christopher Wickham (2006)
- Christopher Clark / Vic Gatrell / Adam Tooze (2007)
- John Darwin / Rosemary Hill (2008)
- Mary Beard / Margaret M. McGowan (2009)
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| 2010s |
- Dominic Lieven / Jonathan Sumption (2010)
- Ruth Harris / Nicholas Thomas (2011)
- Susie Harries / Alexandra Walsham (2012)
- Susan Brigden / Christopher Duggan (2013)
- Cyprian Broodbank / Catherine Merridale (2014)
- Richard Vinen / Alexander Watson (2015)
- Robin Lane Fox / Nikolaus Wachsmann (2016)
- Christopher de Hamel (2017)
- Peter Marshall (2018)
- Mary Fulbrook (2019)
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| 2020s |
- David Abulafia (2020)
- Sudhir Hazareesingh (2021)
- Clare Jackson (2022)
- Halik Kochanski (2023)
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