If memory serves, Sir Martin Gilbert's book In Search of Churchill addresses 
this issue.
 
Sandy

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Mr. Sandy Finlayson
Director of Library Services &
Professor of Theological Bibliography
Westminster Theological Seminary 
Philadelphia, PA

'Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library’

Sir Winston Churchill

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        From: [email protected] on behalf of Antoine Capet 
        Sent: Wed 3/3/2010 3:55 PM 
        To: [email protected] 
        Cc: 
        Subject: Re: [ChurchillChat] Winston Churchill (Grandson) Death
        
        

        Many thanks for the link :
        
        
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/7352232/Winston-Churchill.html
        
        A really complicated life!
        
        There is a passage in the obituary which I do not understand :
        
        "When Randolph Churchill died in 1968, Churchill wanted to take on the
        biography of Sir Winston that his father had begun. But Lord Hartwell,
        proprietor of the Telegraph, with whom the decision lay, engaged the
        academic Martin Gilbert, who went on to produce a classic. "
        
        Why should the proprietor of the Daily Telegraph have a say on Randolph
        Churchill's successor for the Official Biography? From where did he 
derive
        this (heavy) privilege?
        
        Best wishes to all,
        
        Antoine Capet,
        Rouen (France)
        
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