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H. H. Asquith

British Liberal prime minister who led the UK into World War I.

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Herbert Henry Asquith was born on 12 September 1852 in Morley, West Yorkshire, the younger son of Joseph Dixon Asquith and his wife Emily.[1]

Life and work

He later attended the City of London School, where he became an outstanding pupil under headmaster E. A. Abbott.[2] Asquith entered Lincoln's Inn to train as a barrister and was called to the bar in June 1876.[3] Asquith and his brother were educated at home by their parents until their father died suddenly in 1860; after that, their grandfather William Willans arranged for them to become boarders at Fulneck School, a Moravian Church school near Leeds.[4] A classical scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford was won by Asquith in November 1869, and he began his studies there the following October.[5]

Asquith married Helen Kelsall Melland in 1877, and the couple had five children.[6][7]

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Criticism of his leadership continued to grow after he formed a coalition government in 1915.[8] Conflicts over Irish Home Rule and women's suffrage were suspended by the outbreak of World War I.[8]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "H. H. Asquith" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Jenkins, p. 13; Davies, Edward J. "The Ancestry of Herbert Henry Asquith", Genealogists' Magazine, 30 (2010–12), pp. 471–479 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "H. H. Asquith" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Dinner to Mr. Asquith", The Times, 25 November 1892, p. 6; Dinner to Mr. Asquith", The Times, 25 November 1892, p. 6; Alderson, p. 1 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "H. H. Asquith" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Jenkins, p. 13; Jenkins, p. 13; Alderson, p. 1 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "H. H. Asquith" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Jenkins, p. 13 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "H. H. Asquith" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Political Notes", The Times, 23 July 1908, p. 12 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "H. H. Asquith" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Spender, J. A. and Cyril Asquith. "Lord Oxford", The Times, 13 September 1932, p. 13 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "H. H. Asquith" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Matthew, H. C. G. "Asquith, Herbert Henry, first earl of Oxford and Asquith (1852–1928)" , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "H. H. Asquith" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cameron Hazlehurst, "Herbert Henry Asquith" in John P McIntosh, ed. British Prime Ministers in the 20th Century (1977) 105–106 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

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