Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith. Earl of Oxford and Asquith is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.It was created in 1925 for the Liberal politician H. H. Asquith.
Lord Oxford (as he is now known) is the elder son of Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, and code breaker Anne Asquith.He was named after his paternal grandfather Raymond Asquith, a scholar and Army officer who was killed in action during the First World War.
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928) was a British statesman and Liberal politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.
After the extinction of the earls of Oxford and earls Mortimer, former Prime Minister H. H. Asquith was keen to choose "Earl of Oxford" for his own title. As an earldom was then traditional for former prime ministers, and Asquith had a number of connections with the city of Oxford, it seemed a logical choice and had the king's support.
He was the grandson of H.H. Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, British Prime Minister from 1908 until 1916. Lord Oxford's two older sisters both predeceased him; the younger of these was Lady Perdita Rose Mary Asquith, later Lady Hylton (1910–1996), [ 1 ] who was married to William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton and became the grandmother ...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Stefan Buczacki, My Darling Mr Asquith: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Venetia Stanley. Cato and Clarke, 2016. "When Asquith’s letters to Venetia were published in 1982, edited by Michael and Eleanor Brock, only around half of the total 300,000 words were included.
In 1925, Asquith was raised to the peerage as Earl of Oxford and Asquith. His great-grandson Raymond is the present Earl. All of H. H. Asquith's seven children achieved some prominence in national affairs. By his first wife Helen Kelsall Melland (d. 1891), he had four sons and one daughter. All of the sons volunteered for the Front early in the ...
Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith; Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith This page was last edited on 17 December 2020, at 02:10 (UTC). ...