Herbert Asquith

Lady Cynthia Charteris married Herbert Asquith , Beb, the second son of Herbert Henry Asquith and Helen Asquith .

At the end of her year of bereavements, LCA embarked with her husband , her youngest son, and a friend of his, overland to Marseilles and thence by boat to Egypt.

LCA and her husband bought their new home, Sullington Court in the little village of Sullington near Pulborough in Sussex, an old farmhouse in unspoilt country. They moved in on 4 August.

Herbert Asquith , husband of LCA , died at Bath. His Times obituary called him a poet and novelist.

In Dresden Cynthia Charteris met Violet Asquith , then, in December, Violet's brothers Beb (Herbert ) and Oc (Arthur ). By the time she left Dresden, Beauman writes, she was in love with...

Having joined the army, Herbert Asquith had a spell at a training camp on Salisbury Plain before being posted to the Front in France. By August 1916 he was feeling as if he would...