Raymond Asquith

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

Life

Raymond Asquith was the eldest son of the politician of the Liberal Party 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 was educated at Winchester College and won a scholarship in 1896 at Balliol College, Oxford. After his studies, he graduated with excellent grades and chairman of an influential fraternity, he became a lawyer in 1902 and received his court approval.

On July 25, 1907, he married Lady Katharine Frances Horner ( 1885-1976 ), daughter of Sir John Francis Fortescue Horner and Frances Graham. From the marriage, which by all accounts was happy, had three children:

• Helen Frances (1908-2000), unmarried
• Perdita Rose Mary (1910-1996) ∞ 1931 William George Hervey Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton
• Julian Edward George (1916-2011), 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith ∞ 1947 Anne Mary Celestine Palairet

Asquith was a junior consultant in the North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration Tribunal in The Hague and in the Committee of Inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic, which was held on May 2, 1912 to July 3, 1912 in New York City and 97 witnesses heard. He also belonged to the Corrupt Coterie, an influential group of young English aristocrats and intellectuals of the 1910s, at. Asquith was considered a potential candidate for the Liberal Party in Derby, broke when the First World War.