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Occupation. Politician, diplomat. Raymond Benedict Bartholomew Michael Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, OBE (born 24 August 1952), is a British former diplomat and hereditary peer, styled Viscount Asquith until he succeeded to his father's peerage titles on 16 January 2011. The earldom of Oxford and Asquith was created for his paternal ...
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 ...
Dec 30, 2014 · Raymond Asquith, the head of MI6’s Moscow station — who drove Gordievsky to freedom — and Andrew Gibbs were ordered to leave the Soviet Union a few days later as the Kremlin kicked out 25 ...
Raymond was the eldest child of Herbert Henry Asquith, the man who declared war on Germany in August 1914. Two years later, in the last months of his premiership, he had to endure the anguish of ...
Jul 2, 2004 · RAYMOND Asquith was a junior counsel for the Board of Trade at its Inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic. He was there for ninety days, into the summer of 1912, and he questioned Boxhall, Hemming, Beauchamp, Mackay, Dillon, and a clutch of others. The son of the sitting Prime Minister, Raymond Asquith knew as much as anyone of the proofs ...
Among the ‘lost generation’ of the First World War, few shine as bright as Raymond Asquith, the Prime Minister’s eldest son. He had been president of the Oxford Union, and along with Lady Diana Manners and Duff Cooper, was part of the pre-war ‘coterie’ set of English socialites and intellectuals John Buchan even based one of his literary heroes on him, while Winston Churchill was to ...
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Sep 12, 2016 · Yet, Asquith, despite the strains of office, appeared to be bearing up until September 1916. He had endured so much but could not endure the death of his son Raymond Asquith, who was killed on ...
