awarded honorary degrees by the University of Glasgow, University of Oxford and University of Bristol. Later life and death After more than 56 years of marriage, Clementine was widowed on 24 January 1965 when Winston died at the age of 90. After Sir Winston's death, on 17 May 1965, she was created a life peer as Baroness Spencer-Churchill, of Chartwell in the County of Kent. She sat as a cross-bencher, but her growing deafness precluded her taking a regular part in parliamentary life. In her final few years, inflation and rising expenses left Lady Spencer-Churchill in financial difficulties and in early 1977 she sold at auction five paintings by her late husband. After her death, it was discovered that she had destroyed the Graham Sutherland portrait of her husband because Sir Winston had disliked it. Lady Spencer-Churchill died at her London home, at 7 Princes Gate, Knightsbridge, of a heart attack on 12 December 1977. She was 92 years old and had outlived her husband by almost 13 years, as well as three of her five children. She is buried with her husband and children at St Martin's Church, Bladon, near Woodstock in Oxfordshire. Memorials The Clementine Churchill Hospital in Harrow, Middlesex, is named after her. A plaque on the Berkhamsted house where the young Clementine Hozier had lived during her education at Berkhamsted Girls' School was unveiled in 1979 by her youngest daughter, Baroness Soames. A blue plaque also commemorates her residence there. Arms Notes References Sources Biographies Lovell, M.S. (2012), The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History – from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill, Abacus (Little, Brown), Purnell, S. (2015), First Lady: The Private Wars of Clementine Churchill, Aurum Press Limited, Soames, M. (2002), Clementine Churchill, Doubleday, External links The Papers of Clementine Churchill. Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge Winston & Clementine Churchill - UK Parliament Living Heritage 1885 births 1977 deaths Burials at St Martin's Church, Bladon Commanders of the Order of St John Crossbench life peers Churchill, Clementine English Anglicans People educated at Berkhamsted School People from Mayfair Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill Churchill Winston Churchill Wives of knights YMCA leaders Life peeresses created by Elizabeth II