Herbert Henry Asquith

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...

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...

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.

After her release, her account of her continuing campaign both to publicise the suffrage demands and to effect reform of prisons is merged in an account of events on the broader suffrage front: the Conciliation...

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...

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 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 ,

On 21 November 1911, when Asquith 's proposal for a Manhood Suffrage Bill brought out the suffragists in force, CL attended as a stone-thrower, armed also with a small hammer.

EL and her husband were friendly with several prominent politicians, including Herbert Asquith and Arthur Balfour . Another friend of EL was the artist Florence Upton , who shared her interest in the supernatural.

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...

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...

Margaret Kennedy married David Davies , a successful barrister who had been a secretary to the former Prime Minister Asquith .

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. She...

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...

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...