Sir Winston Churchill FRS (18 April 1620 – 26 March 1688), known as the Cavalier Colonel, was an English soldier, historian, and politician.

He fought and was wounded in the Civil War as a captain in the King's Horse and, after the Royalists were defeated, was forced to pay a recompense fee of £446 (equivalent to around £44,600 in the present day).

[5][citation needed] Jasper attended Queen's College, Oxford,[6] and was commissioned in the Duke of York's Regiment in 1678,[7] but he appears to have died soon thereafter.

Theobald also attended Queen's College, took holy orders, became chaplain in his brother's regiment (Churchill's Dragoons) in 1683, but he died in 1685 at age 22.

Theobald, the cleric, stood out: he was commissioned Chaplain in November 1683, but in the King's Own Royal Regiment of Dragoons commanded then by John, Lord Churchill.