I believe the "small boy" asking the question was Nick Soames, Churchill's
grandson.
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [ChurchillChat] "Are you the greatest Englishman?"
> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:50:08 +0200
>
> 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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