Herbert Henry Asquith

Standard Name: Asquith, Herbert Henry
Used Form: Lord Asquith
Used Form: Prime Minister Asquith

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Characters Cicely Hamilton
Set in the near future, the play builds on the premise that the world has found a way to end technological warfare. It concludes that war is an abhorrent but inevitable part of the human...
Family and Intimate relationships Iris Tree
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 .
Queen's College was founded for the training of...
Family and Intimate relationships Constance Lytton
The elder of Constance's surviving brothers, Victor Bulwer-Lytton, second Earl of Lytton , a colonial civil servant and diplomat, was also a supporter of the suffrage campaign. He visited Constance in Holloway Prison ,
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
152-3
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.
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with him.
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.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 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...
Family and Intimate relationships Viola Tree
The wedding attracted so many people that traffic round about St. Martin's Church had for some hours to be diverted.
qtd. in
Beerbohm, Max, editor. Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art. Hutchinson, 1920.
143
The best man was Denys Finch Hatton , a friend of Alan Parsons since...
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
Another friend of EL was the artist Florence Upton , who shared her interest in the supernatural.
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
She...
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...
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...
politics Constance Lytton
CLtook the plunge, not only of joining the WSPU , but also of volunteering to be one of the next deputation to the Prime Minister (Herbert Henry Asquith ), which would in all...

Timeline

Spring 1893: Home Secretary Lord Asquith appointed May...

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Spring 1893

Home Secretary Lord Asquith appointed May Abraham and Mary Paterson as the first women factory inspectors.
Harrison, Barbara. Not Only the ’Dangerous Trades’: Women’s Work and Health in Britain, 1880-1914. Taylor and Francis, 1996.
129
“Palmer’s Index to the Times”. Historical Newspapers Online.
(1893): 6
Soldon, Norbert. Women in British Trade Unions 1874-1976. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
48
Goldman, Harold. Emma Paterson: She Led Woman into a Man’s World. Lawrence and Wishart, 1974.
80

5 December 1905: Liberal leader Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman,...

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5 December 1905

Liberal leader Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman , a known supporter of women's suffrage, formed the government of the UK, following the surprise resignation of Conservative Arthur James Balfour .
Butler, David E., and Jennie Freeman. British Political Facts, 1900-1960. Macmillan, 1963.
4
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
51
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491

End of January 1908: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...

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End of January 1908

The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies sent a deputation to discuss the issue of women's suffrage with Herbert Asquith .
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
44-5

7 April 1908: Herbert Henry Asquith (Liberal) became the...

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7 April 1908

Herbert Henry Asquith (Liberal ) became the British Prime Minister following the resignation of Campbell-Bannerman .
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
Sramek, Joseph. “Lloyd George’s ’People’s Budget’, and the Parliamentary Act of 1911, 12 June 1998”. History and Politics: Modern British History.

13 June 1908: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...

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13 June 1908

The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies organised a co-ordinated procession in London which included 10,000 women from forty-two organizations.
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
79-80
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
41
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
133-4

21 June 1908: The Women's Social and Political Union organised...

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21 June 1908

The Women's Social and Political Union organised a Woman's Sunday which involved (according to the Times estimate) between 250,000 and 500,000 people, mostly women. The WSPU called it Britain's largest-ever political meeting.
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
91-4, 96-7

18 September 1909: Women's Social and Political Union members...

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18 September 1909

Women's Social and Political Union members Mary Leigh and Charlotte Marsh , imprisoned in Winson Green , Birmingham, began fasting; they were ordered by Home Secretary Herbert Gladstone to be forcibly fed.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
54
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
104
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
201-2

November 1909: The controversial People's Budget of David...

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November 1909

The controversial People's Budget of David Lloyd George passed successfully through the House of Commons ; three weeks later, however, it was vetoed by the Lords .
Sramek, Joseph. “Lloyd George’s ’People’s Budget’, and the Parliamentary Act of 1911, 12 June 1998”. History and Politics: Modern British History.

January 1910: A general election was fought in Britain...

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January 1910

A general election was fought in Britain on the issue of Lloyd George 's people's budget of the previous year: the combined Conservative and [Ulster] Unionist Parties came in only two votes behind the Liberals

7 November 1911: The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry...

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7 November 1911

The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith , told members of the People's Suffrage Federation that his Liberal government would bring forward, next session, a Manhood Suffrage Bill or Reform Bill.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
318-19
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
116-17, 171

By mid-March 1912: At a period of vigorous suffragist activity,...

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By mid-March 1912

At a period of vigorous suffragist activity, a million British miners had been on strike for three weeks.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971.
29 and n7

11 April 1912: Asquith brought forward the Liberal party's...

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11 April 1912

Asquith brought forward the Liberal party 's third Home Rule Bill for Ireland (since 1886) in return for election support from John Redmond of the Irish Party .
“Living Heritage. Parliament and Ireland. Third Home Rule Bill”. www. parliament.uk.

July 1912: The Irish Women's Franchise League organised...

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July 1912

The Irish Women's Franchise League organised peaceful protests around Prime Minister Asquith 's visit to Dublin, but English suffragettes travelled to Dublin and demonstrated violently.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
57-60

After August 1912: James Connolly spoke in favour of women's...

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After August 1912

James Connolly spoke in favour of women's suffrage at an Irish Women's Franchise League weekly meeting.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
61

14 August 1912: Three English suffragettes jailed for the...

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14 August 1912

Three English suffragettes jailed for the Asquith incident in Dublin started a hunger strike, demanding recognition as political prisoners; four Irish suffragettes joined the hunger strike next day.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
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