qtd. in
Beerbohm, Max, editor. Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art. Hutchinson, 1920.
143
Herbert Henry Asquith
Standard Name: Asquith, Herbert Henry
Used Form: Lord Asquith
Used Form: Prime Minister Asquith
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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. |
| 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. 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, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 | Mary Augusta Ward | 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. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 416-17 |
Timeline
Spring 1893: Home Secretary Lord Asquith appointed May...
Building item
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,...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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,...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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.
62
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