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Several times before a peerage had been offered to Mr. Asquith, but he resolutely refused the honor; for to enter the House of Lords' powerless debating chamber, would have been to commit political suicide. At the age of 73, however, and with the fortunes of the Liberal Party at their lowest ebb, the barrier to the Lords was obviously removed. Were it not that he was opposed in principle to accepting honors for himself, the matter might rest there; but, as London club talk had it, his last scruples were overcome by his dynamic wife...
...heir to the earldom is Lord Oxford's grandson, Julian Asquith, only son of the earl's eldest son, Raymond Asquith (killed in France in 1915). This young man will now be known as the Hon. Julian Asquith...
Herbert Henry Asquith was 'born in Yorkshire in 1852 of "old Puritan stock." When Herbert was eight, his father died and the family moved to Huddersfield, where it lived with the widow's parents...
...about this time that Gladstone formed his fourth and last Ministry. Asquith at that time had been a Liberal M. P. for East Fife for six years. Gladstone plucked him greedily, made him Home Secretary; and his wisdom and faith in the young man's ability was amply rewarded; for many agree that Mr Asquith made the best Home Secretary with which Britain was ever blest...
...years later he married "Margot," his second and present wife. This was a happy match, for Mrs. Asquith not only adored the ground upon which Herbert walked, but was possessed with a superabundance of energy motivated by her ambitions for her husband. Mr. Asquith's fortunes daily grew brighter...