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Asquith (left) with his sister Emily and elder brother William, c. 1857. Asquith was born in Morley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the younger son of Joseph Dixon Asquith (1825–1860) and his wife Emily, née Willans (1828–1888). The couple also had three daughters, of whom only one survived infancy.
The scheme of The Somerset Masque appears to be derived from the story of Peleus and Thetis, as related by Catullus. [6] Campion's masque on the night of the wedding ceremony was the first of a number of entertainments, including Ben Jonson's A Challenge at Tilt and The Irish Masque at Court, Thomas Middleton's lost Masque of Cupids, and The Masque of Flowers.
Asquith was addicted to "weekending" and many Friday-to-Mondays were spent at the Wharf. [5] Asquith died at the house on the morning of 5 February 1928. His daughter Violet recorded his last weeks: "To watch Father's glorious mind breaking up and sinking - like a great ship - is a pain beyond all my imagining.
Raymond Herbert Asquith (6 November 1878 – 15 September 1916) was an English barrister and eldest son of British prime minister H. H. Asquith.A distinguished Oxford scholar, he was a member of the fashionable group of intellectuals known as the Coterie, which included, Lady Diana Manners (with whom he had a long flirtatious relationship), Patrick Shaw-Stewart, Charles Lister, Hugo "Ego ...
H. H. Asquith: 5 April 1908 – 25 May 1915 Chancellor of the Exchequer: H. H. Asquith: 10 December 1905 David Lloyd George: 12 April 1908 Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons: George Whiteley: 12 December 1905 Jack Pease: 3 June 1908 The Master of Elibank: 14 February 1910 Percy Illingworth ...
Herbert Dixon Asquith (11 March 1881 – 5 August 1947) was an English poet, novelist, and lawyer. [2] Nicknamed "Beb" by his family, he was the second son of H. H. Asquith, British Prime Minister and the younger brother of Raymond Asquith. [2] Asquith was greatly affected by his service with the Royal Artillery in World War I. [3]
Associated British Machine Tool Makers Ltd or ABMTM was a trade association of British machine tool builders, established on 14 February 1917. [1] Working with an initial capital of £100,000, the founding firms were all manufacturers of high-quality machines. The offices were at 34 Victoria Street, London. [2]
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 ...