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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 1
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.
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.
In January 1915 Venetia commenced three months nurse training as a paying probationer at The London Hospital, Whitechapel under matron Eva Luckes. [1] [2] 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.
In 1934 she used her journals and her husband’s correspondence as the basis for her book, India, Minto and Morley, and she also contributed to Margot Asquith’s Myself When Young and to John Buchan's biography of her husband. [2] [7] Predeceased by her husband and two of her children, including the death of her son Gavin in the First World ...
Margot Tennant (1864–1945), who was a socialite and author and the second wife of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. [16] Harold John "Jack" Tennant (1865–1935), who became a Liberal politician and married factory inspector May Abraham in 1896. [17]
Margot Asquith said the Duke of Devonshire "was a man whose like we shall never see again; he stood by himself and could have come from no country in the world but England. He had the figure and appearance of an artisan, with the brevity of a peasant, the courtesy of a king and the noisy sense of humour of a Falstaff .
Margot Asquith (great-great-granddaughter) [2] Harriet Walter (great-great-great-great-granddaughter) John Walter (1 January 1738 – 16 November 1812) was an English newspaper publisher and founder of The Times newspaper, [ 3 ] which he launched on 1 January 1785 as The Daily Universal Register .