A quick Google search leads to :
Ramsden, John (1998). 'How Winston Churchill became 'the greatest living
Englishman'', Contemporary
British History, 12: 3, 1 - 40
More informally, at about this time [1954], he responded to a small boy who,
when
visiting Chartwell, managed to steal into the great man's room and pose the
question 'Are you the greatest man in the world?' with the words 'Yes, I am.
Now bugger off'. (50)
[page 8]
Note 50 has :
Will Yolen and K. S. Giniger, Heroes for our Times (Harrisburg, PA:
Stackpole, 1968), p.3.
Where Yolen & Giniger got the information, we are not told.
A.Capet
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From: "Stan A. Orchard" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 10:14 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ChurchillChat] "original discussion"
I can't check the details right at this moment, but all this discussion
about the younger generation brings to mind a story about a child who
allegedly confronted Churchill in the garden at Chartwell and asked
something like, "Are you the greatest Englishman?", to which Churchill
replied, "Yes I am. Now bugger off."
Stan
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