The Manhattan cocktail — a potent and ... at the Manhattan Club for a party thrown by Jennie Jerome, perhaps better known as Lady Randolph Churchill, Winston Churchill’s mother.

The Manhattan has always ... who whipped up the cocktail for a December 1874 banquet hosted by American-born British ...

However, the historical timeline gets a little dodgy considering that the first recorded recipe for the Churchill cocktail was published in print in an issue of "Esquire" magazine in 1939.