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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nov 27, 2017 · by Ray Setterfield. December 21, 1915 — Raymond Asquith, the son of England's last Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, served in the First World War in the Grenadier Guards and wrote to his wife on this day describing life in the trenches*. In a conflict noted for its mud, blood, horror and tragedy, it seems remarkable that Asquith was ...
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Raymond Asquith, the eldest of the five children of H. H. Asquith and his first wife, Helen Melland, was born in Hampstead on 6th November 1878. His father was a lawyer but In the 1886 General Election he was elected as the Liberal MP for East Fife. (1)
