Asquith

Asquith, HERBERT HENRY, born at Morley, Yorkshire, 12th September 1852, was educated first at the Moravian school of Fulneck near Bradford, and from the City of London School passed to Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in classics (1874), won the Craven and gained a fellowship. Called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1876, he became a Q.C. in 1890, in 1886 entered parliament as a Gladstonian for the East division of Fife, and from 1892 to 1895 was Home Secretary, as such winning the respect of all parties in the House. His first wife having died in 1891, he three years later married Margot, youngest daughter of Sir Charles Tennant.