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
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
Margot Asquith
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Emma Alice Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, 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
H. H. Asquith
…of the so-called "Little Englanders"—and too abrasive. Asquith remained at the Home Office until the government fell in 1895. Asquith had known Margot Tennant slightly since before his wife's death, and grew increasingly attached to her in his years as a widower. On 10 May 1894 they were married at St George's…
Margaret Emma Alice Margot Asquith ne Tennant Countess of Oxford and Asquith
Margot Asquith, painting by Philip de László, 1909
Portrait by Adolf de Meyer