Word: asquith
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...late Lord Asquith was the last legitimate successor to William Ewart Gladstone as Liberal Leader. When Asquith's power began to wane David Lloyd George seized Liberal leadership but he was deserted at the last election by orthodox Liberal Sir Herbert Samuel and unorthodox Liberal Sir John Simon, the latter remaining in the Cabinet last week supported by 35 Liberal...
Last week a British Royal Commission headed by Lord Askwith (not Asquith) released in London a report which absolved the Maltese clergy, then administered a stinging, personal rebuke to Lord Strickland, whose mother was a Maltese and bore him in Malta...
...Prime Ministers--all once leaders of the Union. The speakers who meet Harvard tomorrow evening have received their training in this historic environment. Mr. O'Brien, the fourth speaker of the evening, occupies the Presidential Chair today which was formerly the prized possession of such men as Gladstone, Cecil, Asquith, Guedalla and Cardinal Manning...
...Archbishop of Wales could not come. Lady Ampthill and Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith sent their regrets. The Archbishop of York thought the use of his name was enough. Professor Hector Hetherington of Moral Philosophy at Liverpool University had a previous engagement. But an immense crowd of "Adults Only" hurried to Central Hall, Westminster and waited breathlessly to hear the real truth about Hon. Violet Blanche Douglas-Pennant, onetime Commandant of the Women's Royal Air Force...
...twice-divorced sister-in-law of the Bishop of Kilmore. Since his divorce was not valid in England he was charged with bigamy, tried in the House of Lords, imprisoned for three months. Later he was pardoned and reinstated through the aid of the late Earl of Oxford and Asquith. When his second wife divorced him he married Elizabeth Mary Countess Arnim, anonymous authoress (Elizabeth and Her German Garden, The Enchanted April...