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THE ORDER OF SERVICE
FOR THE FUNERAL OF
The Right Honourable
Sir Winston Leonard
Spencer-Churchill
K.G., 0 .M., C.H.
30th January 196 5
Arguably the greatest Briton of the twentieth-century, Sir Winston Churchill was afforded a State Funeral
upon bis death in January 1965. One of the mourners at that event in St. Paul's Cathedral was
Sir Harold Roxbee Cox, later that year to be elevated to the life peerage as Baron Kings Norton.
This Order of Service is Sir Harold's personal copy from that day that he kept with his other collections
at his home at Westcote House, Gloucestershire, and has his accession nmnber of 16.24 on the cover.
