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Emma Alice Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (née Tennant; 2 February 1864 – 28 July 1945), known as Margot Asquith, was a British socialite and author. She was married to British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith from 1894 to his death in 1928.
Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco (born Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy Asquith; 26 February 1897 – 7 April 1945) was an English socialite, actress and writer between 1921 and 1940. She was the daughter of H. H. Asquith , the British Prime Minister, and the writer Margot Asquith , and the wife of Antoine Bibesco , a Romanian prince and diplomat.
The Wharf, Walton House and Mill House are three houses in Church Street, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England.They are part of a complex of buildings bought and expanded by Margot Asquith, wife of the then Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, from 1911 and which formed their country home until his death in 1928.
In January 1915 Venetia commenced three months nurse training as a paying probationer at The London Hospital, Whitechapel under matron Eva Luckes. [2] [3] After her training Venetia signed up as a VAD nurse with the British Red Cross Society and served both overseas at No 4 Red Cross Hospital, in Wimereux, France in 1915, and at home in Charing Cross and Rutland Hospitals in 1916.
Margot Asquith at about the time of her marriage. The general election of July 1892 returned Gladstone and the Liberals to office, with intermittent support from the Irish Nationalist MPs. Asquith, who was then only 39 and had never served as a junior minister, accepted the post of Home Secretary, a senior Cabinet position. The Conservatives ...
Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945), writer, daughter of H.H. Asquith and Margot Asquith; Anthony Asquith (1902–1968), film director, youngest son of the Prime Minister; Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1916–2011), colonial administrator; Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith (born 1952), former diplomat, elder son of ...
Cottage Book. Itchen Abbas, 1894–1905 (1909) On Sea trout (1913 essay, published in book form 1994) The League of Nations . London: Oxford University Press. 1918. Recreation (1920) Twenty-Five Years, 1892–1916. (1925) Fallodon Papers (1926) The fly-fisherman (1926 essay, published in book form 1994) The Charm of Birds (Hodder and Stoughton ...
Margot Asquith (1864–1945), countess of Oxford and Asquith; Margot Austin (1907–1990), American children’s book illustrator; Margot Badran (born 1936), scholar of Middle Eastern history and women's studies; Margot Bailet (born 1990), French alpine skier; Margot Bærentzen (1907–1983), Danish fencer; Margot Becke-Goehring (1914–2009 ...