Herbert Henry Asquith

Henry Asquith (1852-1928; ODNB), MP (L) East Fife, 1886-1918, Paisley, 1920-25. Balliol Coll., Oxford; influenced by T.H. Green, advanced the agenda of Liberal progressivism in government; home secretary, 1892-5; chancellor of the exchequer, 1905-8; prime minister, 1908-16; leader of 'Asquithian' Liberal party, 1918-23, and reunited Liberal party, 1923-26; 1st earl of Oxford and Asquith (1925); one of the 'decisive figures' of Henson's life - 'he sent me to the North, and I ever felt that the fact added something considerable to the justification of my coming there': Braley, More Letters, 49. See also Volume 78.

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The Henson Journals

Herbert Henry Asquith