“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(25 November 1909): 4
Herbert Henry Asquith
Standard Name: Asquith, Herbert Henry
Used Form: Lord Asquith
Used Form: Prime Minister Asquith
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Constance Lytton | |
| politics | Constance Lytton | |
| politics | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | Margaret Haig Mackworth (later MHVR
) slipped through a police barricade to confront Prime Minister Herbert Asquith
about women's suffrage as he was being driven off in his car. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991. 28 |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 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... |
| politics | Dora Marsden | Following her split with the WSPU
, DM
considered joining the Women's Freedom League
or the Fabian Society
, but instead began to plan for a radical feminist journal that would stimulate discussion of diverse... |
| Instructor | Lady Ottoline Morrell | When she was in her early twenties, William Dalrymple Maclagan
, eighty-eighth Bishop of York, supervised her continuing education and prepared regular reading lists for her. And even after this, intellectual men of her acquaintance... |
| Friends, Associates | Ethel M. Arnold | EA’s other acquaintances from her early life in Oxford included Walter Pater
, Max Müller
(whose daughter attended Oxford High School with her), and Benjamin Jowett
, Master of Balliol. Later in life, friends and... |
| Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Kennedy | Through her marriage to Davies, Kennedy came into contact with the former Prime Minister Asquith
and his family. Her acquaintance with members of high society gave her considerable material for later fiction. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983. 77, 90 |
| Friends, Associates | Marie Belloc Lowndes | Her literary friends of a generation before her own included George Meredith
, Rhoda Broughton
, and Henry James
. She participated in the friendship of the two last-named by being regularly at Broughton's house... |
| Friends, Associates | Edith Lyttelton | EL
and her husband were friendly with several prominent politicians, including Herbert Asquith
and Arthur Balfour
. Lyttelton, Edith. Alfred Lyttelton: An Account of His Life. Longmans, Green, 1917. 220 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Lady Ottoline Bentinck (later LOM
) met Herbert Henry Asquith
. He was married, but she became, according to her own account, really intimate qtd. in Darroch, Sandra Jobson. Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1975. 36 Darroch, Sandra Jobson. Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1975. 31, 35-9, 172-3 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Lady Cynthia Charteris
married Herbert Asquith
, Beb, the second son of Herbert Henry Asquith
and Helen Asquith
. Herbert Henry Asquith (later first Earl of Oxford and Asquith), 1852-1928, was at this time... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Kennedy | Margaret Kennedy
married David Davies
, a successful barrister who had been a secretary to the former Prime Minister Asquith
. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983. 74-5 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 36 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | 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... |
Timeline
27 January 1913: The Cabinet decided to withdraw the Franchise...
National or international item
27 January 1913
The Cabinet decided to withdraw the Franchise Bill which had been introduced in the House of Commons three days previously.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
186-7
26 May 1915: Herbert Henry Asquith formed a wartime Coalition...
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26 May 1915
Herbert Henry Asquith
formed a wartime Coalition government.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 227
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Kidd, Colin. “Coalition Monsters”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 5, 6 Mar. 2014, pp. 27-8. 27
7 December 1916: Two days after Asquith resigned from the...
National or international item
7 December 1916
Two days after Asquith
resigned from the leadership of the British wartime coalition government, David Lloyd George
became Prime Minister.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987.
179-80
14 December 1918: The post-war general election (sometimes...
National or international item
14 December 1918
The post-war general election (sometimes called the coupon election) was the first in which some British women (those over thirty with a property qualification of their own or their husband's) voted.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969.
166
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
356
Davies, Emily. “Chronology, Introduction”. Collected Letters, 1861-1875, edited by Ann E. Murphy and Deirdre Raftery, University of Virginia Press, 2004, p. ix - xii, xix-lv.
xlviii
“The 1918 coupon general election”. Liberal Democrat History Group.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
92
“Houses of the Oireachtas—Where it began!”. Houses of the Oireachtas / Tithe an Oireachtas.
January 1921: Prime Minister David Lloyd George gave official...
National or international item
January 1921
Prime Minister David Lloyd George
gave official sanction to a policy of reprisals in Ireland which Asquith
had denounced only two months earlier as a hellish policy.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
213
12 October 2015: The film Suffragette opened at the London...
Building item
12 October 2015
The film Suffragette opened at the London Film Festival, written by Abi Morgan
and directed by Sarah Gavron
.
Elliott, Edward. “Deeds not words: Forthright new film ’Suffragette’ feels like a fiery call to arms”. Oxford Today, 16 Oct. 2015.
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