Word: asquith
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...Eton and won a scholarship to Oxford's austere Balliol College -and, like the Prime Minister, he is wedded to his work. Grimond's wife Laura is the daughter of Lady Violet Bonham Carter, perennial high priestess of the Liberal Party, and herself the daughter of Lord Asquith, who in 1908 became Prime Minister in the party's last elected government. (Winston Churchill was his famed First Lord of the Admiralty...
...this point. Guns of Darkness is just one more tropicalamity with a sounds-great-if-you-don't-think-about-it title, tame performances by all concerned, and direction (by Britain's Anthony Asquith) that does nothing to set the tame on fire. But from this point forward, thanks principally to an intricately reflective script by a young British playwright named John Mortimer, the film rapidly matures into a philosophical thriller of startling moral insight...
...grandson of Lord Asquith (Liberal Prime Minister from 1908-1916), Bonham-Carter was born in 1922, educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford; he spent 1947-48 as a Commonwealth Fellow at the University of Chicago. His mother, the redoubtable Lady Violet, has played a more than active role in British politics for years and was at one time chairman of the Party before the post was assumed by Mark Bonham-Carter's brother-in-law, Jo Grimmond...
Mark Bonham-Carter, the grandson of former British Prime Minister Lord Asquith and a leader of the Liberal Party in Great Britain, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in the Winthrop House H-Entry Common Room...
David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House and the moderator of the panel, announced before the speeches started that Mark Bonham-Carter, the grandson of former British Prime Minister Asquith, will be a guest of Winthrop House for the next three weeks...