Herbert Henry Asquith

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

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politics Constance Lytton
CL was arrested and imprisoned in Holloway for refusing to be turned back by the police as one of a deputation to the Prime Minister .
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(25 November 1909): 4
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 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...
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 Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
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.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
319-20
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976.
258-9
politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
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...
politics Kate O'Brien
KOB had been brought up, before the Easter Uprising, to admire Parnell , John Redmond , and Mr Asquith .
O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford, 1962.
112
Now, she says, she gradually learned that she was a lifelong non-fanatic and non-patriot,...
politics Violet Hunt
Some of the WSPU 's meetings and parties were held at Hunt's home, South Lodge in Kensington. In her memoir she gleefully recalls introducing Christabel Pankhurst to Mrs Humphry Ward , author and vocal...
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.
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politics Margaret Kennedy
MK 's marriage to a former secretary for the Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith (1909-1916) solidified her allegiance to the Liberal party, though she never took an active role in it. (Asquith's term was...
politics Violet Trefusis
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 .
Trefusis, Violet, and Philippe Jullian. Don’t Look Round. Hutchinson, 1953.
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politics Marie Belloc Lowndes
The letter challenged a recent antisuffragist manifesto, and stressed three points from Prime Minister Asquith 's statement to suffragists of 14 August. The points were that women had rendered as effective service to their country...
Textual Features Ethel M. Arnold
EA ’s strength as a writer was in her faculty for criticism. Some of the more prominent novels she reviewed for the Manchester Guardian include George Meredith ’s The Amazing Marriage and Henry James ’s...
Textual Production Iris Tree
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Viola Tree
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...

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27 January 1913: The Cabinet decided to withdraw the Franchise...

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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.
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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.
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, No. 5, 6 Mar. 2014, pp. 27-8.
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7 December 1916: Two days after Asquith resigned from the...

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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...

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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.
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“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...

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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...

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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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