Herbert Henry Asquith

Bloomsbury came to designate a new sensibility in philosophy, literature, art, and politics, and its growth has been linked with the crucial break between the Edwardians and the Georgians, the point when human character...

MAW persuaded Prime Minister Asquith to reverse his support of women's suffrage; the militant suffrage campaign followed on the realisation of political stalemate that followed.

She later stated that the experience gave us the momentary thrill of being behind the scenes, though, of course, we saw nothing, not even the dumpy, grumpy figure of the Prime Minister .

VT 's autobiography incorporates diary entries, letters written and received while she studied singing in Milan, and personal memories. I print these letters now, she wrote, partly for my own edification, and partly, I...

IT 's mother, Maud (Holt) Tree , taught classics at Queen's College , Harley Street and harboured the ambition of becoming an academic at Girton College .

IT was writing poetry by the age of ten, exchanging original verses with Nancy Cunard , who went to day-school with her. By twelve she was impressing future Prime Minister Asquith , who had read...

VT and Prime Minister Asquith , who was nearly ten years her senior, shared a particularly close and long-lasting friendship, and he corresponded with her during her time in Italy. She had known him...

The wedding attracted so many people that traffic round about St. Martin's Church had for some hours to be diverted. The best man was Denys Finch Hatton , a friend of Alan Parsons since...

The story begins a couple of years before the first world war, with the hostile relationship between the author's grandmother, Pamela, the first Lady Glenconner (a much-quoted hostess and society wit), and Pamela's sister-in-law Margot (Tennant) Asquith

She worked with Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst , and became a militant suffragette. Like Constance Lytton , she overcame both natural timidity and physical frailty to take part in demonstrations which were often met with...

EPL led a deputation of suffragists to the House of Commons to press the issue of female suffrage on Prime Minister Asquith , who had neglected the subject in his King's speech at the opening...

EPL led a deputation of more than 200 women to the House of Commons to protest Asquith 's proposed Reform or Manhood Suffrage Bill. On the way some suffragists began breaking windows, ending the militancy truce.

By this date the prospects for female enfranchisement looked more promising than ever before: Parliament was considering the Conciliation Bill, which would allow property-owning women and wives of electors to vote. While the WSPU found...

KOB had been brought up, before the Easter Uprising, to admire Parnell , John Redmond , and Mr Asquith . Now, she says, she gradually learned that she was a lifelong non-fanatic and non-patriot,...

Lady Ottoline Bentinck (later LOM ) met Herbert Henry Asquith . He was married, but she became, according to her own account, really intimate with him.