Katharine Frances Asquith was an English landowner and patron of the arts. During the First World War, she served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse. She was the wife of Raymond Asquith and the daughter-in-law of wartime prime minister H. H. Asquith.
Katharine Horner (later Asquith) by John Singer Sargent, 20 July 1907
Katharine Asquith with her husband Raymond, 1913
Snapshot of Katharine Asquith by Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1920
Raymond Herbert Asquith 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, Patrick Shaw-Stewart, Charles Lister, Hugo "Ego" Charteris, Julian Grenfell and Edward Horner. The Coterie were notable for their unconventional lifestyles and lavish hospitality. Like several of them, Asquith was killed in action in the First World War during his father's term in office.
Raymond Asquith
Asquith's grave in Guillemont Road Cemetery
Memorial tablet in Amiens Cathedral
Memorial in St Andrew's Church in Mells