Sir Winston Churchill - butterfly enthusiast

The former prime minister and wartime leader converted a summer house in the grounds of his home Chartwell in Kent at the end of the Second World War [into a butterfly house]...

[While working on his 1940 "The Few" speech] Churchill was planning the butterfly house and once it was completed he would sit on the benches and watch the butterflies emerge from the chrysalis before releasing them into the garden...

“As a young man he was a serious butterfly collector on his travels across the world and later would have spent many a summer day enjoying the beauty of butterflies in his garden at Chartwell.”