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Margot Asquith

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	Birthday words..(Astrology) ; Youth would be an ideal state if it came later in life. - Liberal prime minister Herbert Henry Asquith, born this day in 1852. Read more
	Life debate.(News) ; THE life and work of Herbert Henry Asquith is the topic of the Prenton Liter-ary and Debating Society's meeting on Tuesday. Entrance to the 7.30pm event at Prenton Bowling Clubin Prenton RoadWest is free. Read more
	ON THIS DAY.(News) ; 1882 Warwickshire County Cricket Club was founded at a meeting in the Queen's Hotel, Coventry. 1908 Herbert Henry Asquith became Liberal Prime Minister and held office until December 7, 1916. 1915 The Croix de Guerre, France's military... Read more
	ON THIS DAY IN ...(Features) ; ...and France signed the Entente Cordiale, a mutual recognition of each other's colonial interests. 1908: Liberal Herbert Henry Asquith became Prime Minister. 1925: The Australian government and the British Colonial Office offered low-interest loans... Read more
	On This Day.(News) ; ...and France signed the Entente Cordiale, a mutual recognition of each other's colonial interests. 1908: Liberal Herbert Henry Asquith became Prime Minister. 1925: The Australian government and the British Colonial Office offered low-interest loans... Read more
	ON THIS DAY.(Letters) ; ...and France signed the Entente Cordiale, a mutual recognition of each other's colonial interests. 1908 Liberal Herbert Henry Asquith became Prime Minister. 1967 Bare-foot Sandie Shaw won the Eurovision Song Contest for Britain with Puppet On... Read more
	Leading Article: Off her plinth ; ...a lifetime membership of the Top Leaders in History club, has fallen to fifth place behind that dripping wet Herbert Henry Asquith in the BBC's rankings of 20th-century prime ministers. Not only that, but she has been knocked off the spare... Read more
	CARTER GOT WHAT SHE WANTED - `A BADDIE'.(News) ; ...playing ingenues in a string of costume period pieces, the great-granddaughter of British Prime Minister Lord Herbert Henry Asquith was pleased to find she was playing ``a baddie'' - a woman who throws her lover together with a fatally ill American... Read more
	On this day.(News) ; ...and France signed the Entente Cordiale, a mutual recognition of each other's colonial interests. 1908: Liberal Herbert Henry Asquith became Prime Minister. 1925: The Australian government and the British Colonial Office offered low-interest loans... Read more
	Anniversaries ; Births: Herbert Henry Asquith, first Earl of Oxford and Asquith, statesman, 1852; Maurice Chevalier, entertainer and actor, 1888; John Cleveland (Jesse) Owens... Read more

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	Asquith, Herbert Henry, 1st earl of Oxford and Asquith Asquith, Herbert Henry, 1st earl of Oxford and Asquith (1852–1928). Prime minister. Between 1908 and 1914 Asquith enjoyed an outstanding record, pushing through a series...infighting within the Liberal Party from 1918 to 1926. Asquith's early life was spent in Morley and Huddersfield ... Read more
	Asquith, Herbert Henry, 1st earl of Oxford and Asquith ...magnate, Sir Charles Tennant. Margot was a terrible snob who insisted...ministerial material. Yet despite Margot's undoubted loyalty to Asquith and his party, the marriage...him, a very mixed blessing. Margot's extravagance severely stretched...premiership. Subsequently, however, Asquith's ... Read more
	Carter, Helen Violet Asquith Bonham ...well as a noted manufacturer and patron of the arts. Asquith's second marriage produced two more children, Anthony and Elizabeth. Anthony Asquith grew up to become a film director whose credits include...According to author Colin Clifford, whose book The Asquiths detailed the extended family's political ... Read more
	Herbert Henry Asquith ...Hampstead on the edge of London. Early Political Career Asquith's law practice developed slowly, and his real ambitions...Gladstone and the Liberals returned to power in 1892, Asquith, now 40, was given Cabinet office as home secretary...under Gladstone to total failure under Lord Rosebury, Asquith ... Read more
	Herbert Henry Asquith Oxford and Asquith, 1st earl of ...Lords of its veto power (see Parliament ). In 1912, Asquith renewed Liberal efforts to establish Irish Home Rule...forestalled it. Having brought Great Britain into the war, Asquith proved a less than successful wartime leader. In 1915...Lloyd George and the Conservative leaders resulted in Asquith's ... Read more