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British socialist, anti-fascist and journalist

Esmond Marcus David Romilly (10 June 1918 – 30 November 1941) was a British socialist, anti-fascist, and journalist, who was in turn a schoolboy rebel, a veteran with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and, following the outbreak of the Second World War, an observer with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Esmond Romilly, the nephew of Winston Churchill, was born in Educated at Wellington College he caused a stir when he declared he was a pacifist.

Esmond Romilly, the nephew of Winston Churchill, was born in Educated at Wellington College he caused a stir when he declared he was a pacifist.

In Esmond Romilly, nephew of Great Britain's 'War Chancellor' Winston Churchill and outspoken pacifist, went to fight with the International Brigades.

Esmond Marcus David Romilly (10 June – 30 November ) was a British socialist, anti-fascist, and journalist, who was in turn a schoolboy rebel.

How Europe Went To War In The Second World War was the most destructive conflict in human history.

Esmond Romilly was the nephew of Winston Churchill, a rebel against his family and public school who left England to fight for the rebels in the Spanish Civil.

He is perhaps best remembered for his teenage elopement with his distant cousin Jessica Mitford, the second youngest of the Mitford sisters.

Born into an aristocratic family – he was a nephew of Clementine Churchill – he emerged in the 1930s as a precocious rebel against his background, openly espousing communist views at the age of fifteen.

He ran away from Wellington College, and campaigned vociferously against the British public school system, by publishing a critical left wing magazine, Out of Bounds: Public Schools' Journal Against Fascism, Militarism, and Reaction, and (jointly with his br