Raymond Asquith

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Lieutenant Raymond Asquith, around 1914

Raymond Asquith (* 6. November 1878 in London ; † 15. September 1916 fell in the Battle of the Somme ) was a British lawyer ( Barrister-of-Law ).

Life

Raymond Asquith was the eldest son of the Liberal Party politician and later Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1852–1928) and his first wife Helen Kelsall Melland († 1891), daughter of Dr. Frederick Melland and Ann Heap Kelsall. Asquith studied at Winchester College and won a scholarship at Balliol College , Oxford in 1896 . After studying, which he graduated with excellent grades and as chairman of an influential student association, he became a lawyer and was admitted to the court in 1902.

Ottoline Morrell : Raymond Asquith with his wife, 1913

On July 25, 1907, he married Lady Katharine Frances Horner (1885-1976), daughter of Sir John Francis Fortescue Horner and Frances Graham. The marriage, which was reported to be a happy one, had three children:

Asquith was a junior adviser to the North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration Court in The Hague and on the committee of inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic , which met from May 2, 1912 to July 3, 1912 in New York City and heard 97 witnesses. He was also a member of the Corrupt Coterie , an influential group of young English aristocrats and intellectuals of the 1910s. Asquith was seen as a potential candidate for the Liberal Party in Derby when the First World War broke out.

literature

  • John Jolliffe: Raymond Asquith: Life and Letters , Pimlico Verlag (1987) ISBN 0-7126-1491-5
  • Michael Stedman: Guillemont: Somme , Pen & Sword Books (1998) ISBN 0-85052-591-8
  • Charles Mosley: Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, Wilmington, Delaware (2003)

Web links

Commons : Raymond Asquith  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Remarks

  1. ^ Raymond Asquith on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
  2. ↑ Asquith and the Conspiracy to Sink Titanic
personal data
SURNAME Asquith, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1916
Place of death Battle of the Somme