UK to honour Winston Churchill on new five-pound ($8) note to be issued in 2016

Britain is set to honour its revered wartime leader Winston Churchill with a banknote featuring his portrait and famous declaration "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat".

The governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, travelled to Churchill's former home Chartwell in Kent, southern England on Friday to announce plans for Churchill's image to appear on a new five-pound ($8) note to be issued in 2016.

Statue in Parliament Square London


About Winston Churchill(Nov 30,1874 - Jan 24,1965)

• was a British Politician(Conservative Party) who was the Prime Minister of the UK from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955

• became Prime Minister following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain on May 10, 1940

• received Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his numerous published works, especially his six-volume set The Second World War

• became the first person to become an Honorary Citizen of USA

• Churchill's funeral was the largest State Funeral  in world history up to that point in time, with representatives from 112 nations
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  Statue in Parliament Square London