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[132] Churchill wrote to Asquith after the second 1910 election, "your leadership was the main and conspicuous feature of the whole fight". [129] Matthew, in his article on Asquith, found that, "the episode was the zenith of Asquith's prime ministerial career. In the British Liberal tradition, he patched rather than reformulated the ...
The Liberal Party under Asquith remained in government with the support of the Irish Parliamentary Party. This was the last election in which the Liberals won the highest number of seats in the House of Commons. It was also the last United Kingdom general election in which a party other than Labour or the Conservatives won the most seats.
The Prime Minister, H H Asquith, had intended to appoint Pease to the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and was therefore keen to identify a seat at which room could be made for Pease at a by-election. Asquith had taken Pease’s defeat quite hard and had sent him a telegram on 12 January 1910 saying: ‘This is the worst incident ...
Asquith: portrait of a man and an era (1964) online; Levine, Naomi. Politics, Religion, and Love: The Story of H.H. Asquith, Venetia Stanley, and Edwin Montagu, Based on the Life and Letters of Edwin Samuel Montagu (NYU Press, 1991). Murray, Bruce K. The People's Budget, 1909–1910: Lloyd George and Liberal Politics (1980). Packer, Ian.
Election: December 1910 United Kingdom general election: Government: Third Asquith ministry (1910—1915) Fourth Asquith ministry (1915—1916) First Lloyd George coalition ministry (1916—1918) House of Commons; Members: 670: Speaker: James Lowther: Leader: H. H. Asquith (until 1916) Bonar Law (from 1916) Prime Minister [H. H. Asquith (until ...
January 1910 United Kingdom general election in Ireland ← 1906 15–28 January 1910 (1910-01-15 – 1910-01-28) December 1910 → 103 seats for Ireland of the 670 seats in the House of Commons First party Second party Third party Leader John Redmond Edward Carson William O'Brien Party Irish Parliamentary Irish Unionist All-for-Ireland Leader since 1900 1910 15 January 1910 Leader's seat ...
January 1910 United Kingdom general election; December 1910 United Kingdom general election; 1918 United Kingdom general election; 1920 Paisley by-election; 1922 United Kingdom general election; 1923 United Kingdom general election; 1924 United Kingdom general election; 1925 University of Oxford Chancellor election
10 February 1910 – 3 December 1910: Election: January 1910 United Kingdom general election: ... H. H. Asquith: Leader of the Opposition: Arthur Balfour: Third-party ...