The December 1910 United Kingdom general election was held from 3 to 19 December. It was the last general election to be held over several days and the last to be held before the First World War.
H H Asquith 1908
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
John Redmond, circa 1909
H. H. Asquith
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Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, was a British statesman, Liberal politician and barrister who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 until his resignation in 1916. H
December 1910 United Kingdom general election
…curtail their own powers). The Conservative Party, led by Arthur Balfour with their Liberal Unionist allies, and the Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, almost exactly repeated the numerical result produced in the January election, with the Conservatives again winning the largest number of votes. The…
Asquith c. 1910s
Asquith (left) with his sister Emily and elder brother William, c. 1857
Asquith in 1876
Asquith, caricatured by Spy, in Vanity Fair, 1891