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By JOHN GOOLRipK
The Governor’s Mansion in Richmond has had many distinguished residents and visitors over the years, but probably none destined to become so renowned as one who came for meals and lodging in 1929.
The distinguished visitor was Winston S. Churchill who is probably destined to be named Time Magazine’s Man of th^ Century when the year 2000 rolls around.
Churchill, then 54 years old, spent 10 days at the Mansion at the invitation of then Governor Harry Byrd Sr. The British author, lecturer, historian and politician had come to Virginia to study the Civil War battlefields around Richmond. Guiding him around the battlefields was Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman, editor of the Richmond News-Leader and author of a famous biography of Robert E. Lee.
Harry Byrd Jr., a retired U.S. Senator from Virginia who lives in
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