This more of a grammatical joke, than a historically accurate anecdote.
One day in Parliament, Winston Churchill was finishing up a stemwinder of a speech as PM. After the speech, one of his colleagues in the party, a product of Eton and of Oxford, chided him for ending a sentence with a preposition.
As ever, the quick-witted PM replied: "That sir, is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put!
Utterly brilliant!

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