Word: asquith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Walter Elliot Elliot, Great Britain's Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries; and Miss Katharine Tennant, half-sister of Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith; in North Berwick, Scotland...
...regiment of recruiting sergeants in the early days of the War. He breakfasted with David Lloyd George regularly at Downing Street, reviewed the Grand Fleet from Admiral Lord Beatty's flagship, earned the title of Britain's Unofficial Prime Minister. Nervous over the introduction of conscription, the Asquith Cabinet demanded just one thing: the support of Horatio Bottomley...
...Mare let his black hair grow long and wavy, attired himself according to his idea of the Latin Quarter. And while he kept others' books he wrote three of his own: Songs of Childhood (under a pseudonym, "Walter Ramal"), Poems (1906). Henry Brocken, his first novel. Scholarly Herbert Asquith being Prime Minister, Bookkeeper de la Mare was placed on the Civil List for a pension of ?100 a year. Though he has often had to make the pot boil in various ways he never went back to an office. Hard worker, he has published more than 25 books. Broad...
...possessed of an immense curly grey beard, His Lordship has the high Salisbury forehead for which his father was famed. Long rector of Hatfield. Herts, seat of the Cecils, he became rural dean of Hertford in 1904, honorary chaplain to King Edward VII in 1909. Asquith appointed him in 1916 Bishop of Exeter, a vast diocese about which the noble Bishop motors and occasionally bicycles, his long square coattails flapping about his gaitered legs. An old Etonian and Oxonian, he drinks dozens of cups of tea daily, is conservative in politics, lofty high church in theology...
...Herbert's Liberals are considered "orthodox" because they champion Free Trade, the traditional Liberal policy and are supported by such venerable colleagues of the late Lord Asquith as half-blind Viscount Grey of Fallodon and the Marquess of Reading, greatest of Britain's living elder statesmen...