Asquith (97 page)

at the Bar, 26-37,
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, 50, 55, 90-2 enters Parliament, 38-41; political friendships, 33-5, 45.7; p
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case, 48-51

as Home Secretary, 58-73, 76, 83-7 his radicalism, 18, 24, 34,
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electoral reform, 18, 36-7; Irish disestablishment, 18-19; women’s suffrage, 57, 246-8, 250, 467 follows Rosebery, 72, 82-3, 89, 113; Rosebery’s resignation, 96-101; leadership crisis, 103-12; and Boer war, 113-33

his position with Liberal Imperialists, 124-9

position in party strengthened by education bill, 135-6, and tariff reform, 135-43

Relugas compact, 144-6,150-2; inter

views with Campbell-Bannerman,

147-50,
153-4,
155, 15b as Chancellor of Exchequer, 158-76 becomes Prime Minister, 177-84 his routine, 185-7, 256-64, 345-8 relations with Edward VII, 185-7, 203-4

interest in church appointments, 187;

religious tolerance, 190-1 settles naval estimates dispute, in 1909, 195. 279; and in 1914, 298-300 supports Lloyd George budget, 199, 207-9, and relies on him to settle railway strike, 234; tolerance in Marconi case, 252-4 skill in dealing with George V, 213-21, 229-30, 231, 236

insists on settlement of War Office and Admiralty differences, 241-2; takes over War Office in Curragh crisis, 312-17; and in 1916, 380-4, 386 his handling of Irish question, 275-6, 279, 281-97, 300-6, 309-10, 315-16; during war, 395-8, 399, 403-4
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agrees to Buckingham Palace conference, 318-19, its failure, 320-3 works for unity on outbreak of war, 324-31; difficulties in early months, 3 3 8-44; direction of strategy, 3 50-1 political crisis, 1915, 355-9, 363-6; forms coalition, 359-62, 367-9;

management of colleagues, 372-4 slanders against him, 378-80, 460; Northcliffe’s attacks, 415, 427,444-5,
448

attends Rome conference, 391 misjudges conscription crisis, 392-4 meeting with Bonar Law at The Wharf, 272, 288-9, 289/1, 406-8 appoints Lloyd George to War Office, 409-10

death of Raymond, 413-15, 419 fall of his government, 411, 420-61 position as leader of opposition, 464-5; refuses Lord Chancellorship, 466-7; Maurice debate, 469-72; defeat at general election, 475-81; not asked to take part in peace conference,
475
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; presides over Universities Commission, 483; receives War Medals, 483

returns to parliament, 484-9; attempts to organise opposition to Lloyd George, 490-2; and attempts at reunion, 497-500

his attitude to Labour government, 500-3

defeated at Paisley, 503-5; accepts peerage, 505-8; and Garter, 510 the Chancellorship of Oxford University, 510-12

final split with Lloyd George and resignation of leadership, 512-17 illness and death, 516-19 Asquith, Joseph Dixon (father), 13-14, 15 Asquith, Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (Emma Alice Margaret Tennant): first meeting and marriage, 54-5, 74-5, 81-2; character, 77-82; Jowett and, 22, 79; the “Souls” and political friendships, 76-9; as hostess, 90, 93, 101-2, 185, 266-7, 270-1, 466, 484; health, 88,
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*, death of Raymond, 413-14; her account of Curragh crisis, 311-14; on Kitchener, 343; slanders about, 378-80, 460; and fall of Asquith’s government, 433, 434; visits U.S.A., 493; her diary and autobiography quoted, 93?/, 137, 138, 141, 147-9, 153-6, 158, 166, 179, 184-5, 227, 326, 330, 379, 410, 413-H, 476,
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mentioned, 3617, 5111, 57, 89, 93, 99, 106, 129, 145, 161, 181, 24677, 257, 259-62, 269, 329, 376, 398, 464, 485,
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Asquith, Raymond, 23, 25, 30-31, 55, 56, 175-6, 181, 266, 271, 378, 4i3-i5> 419

Asquith, Violet,
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Bonham Carter

Asquith, William Willans (brother), 14, 15, 16, 24, 55

Attlee, C. R., Earl Attlee, 341, 48377

Bagehot, Walter, 33 Baker, Harold T., 183, 269, 313-14 Baldwin, Stanley, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, 265,
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Balfour, Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour: golf, 26, 175, 261; Asquith’s relationship with, 4477, 46, 53, 59, 66, 74, 104; and Margot, 76, 79, 9377; Irish Secretary, 42, 43; Prime Minister, 134, 136, 137, 140, 141, 150, 151, 153, 185; opposition leader, 163, 169, 172, 174, 200-1, 211; and constitutional crisis, 214-17, 219-20, 224-5, 226, 227, 231, 240; and women’s suffrage, 248; and Ireland, 275, 278, 310, 320, 339, 340, 34L 400-1, 545; and war direction, 345, 350, 352, 356, 358, 359-68, 382, 385, 416, 417, 421; First Lord of Admiralty, 361, 370, 373, 374-5, 377; and fall of Asquith, 426, 427, 428-9, 430-1,
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; Foreign secretary, 45977, 460-1; after the war, 488, 495, 509-10, 518 Balfour, Lady Frances, 225 Balfour of Burleigh, Lord (A. H. Bruce), 134, 138, 225

Balkan wars, 239, 261, 324 Balliol College, 17, 20-4, 27, 30-1 Baring, Maurice, 507 Battersea, Lord (Cyril Flower), 75, 79 Beauchamp, Earl (William Lygon), 239, 299-300, 304, 341, 347, 509; and the war, 325, 328-9, 345, 370 Beaufort, Duke of (H. C. F. Somerset),
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Beaverbrook, Lord (Sir W. M. Aitken): and Irish negotiations, 288, 289*1; on Churchill, 355; on Dardanelles evacuation, 381; and “The Wharf” meeting, 406-8; and fall of Asquith, 420, 426-7, 431, 432; his account of 1916 crisis discussed, 422
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Beerbohm, Sir Max, 507 Belgians, Elizabeth, Queen of the, 411 Belloc, Hilaire, 162, 251, 252 Benckendorff, Count, 325 Benedict XV, Pope, 391 Bentinck, Mrs. Cavendish, 268 Berkeley peerage case, 57 Bibesco, Prince Antoine, 94*2, 483 Bibesco, Princess Antoine (Elizabeth Asquith), 94, 95, 176, 259, 262, 264, 266, 328, 379, 414, 465, 483, 488

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, J- M., 486, 487*2, 495, 498 Birkenhead, 1st Earl of, (Sir F. E. Smith), 92, 247,495, 511; Privy Councillor, 223-4; and Marconi, 252; and constitutional crisis, 216, 229, shouts Asquith down, 224*2, 225, 227; and Ireland, 277-8, 281, 339, 401, 403; and the war, 385, 417*2, 425; and fall of Asquith, 427, 438, 441, 442 Birrell, Augustine, 41*2, 214; at Board of Education, 158, 169; at Irish Office, 184, 209, 282, 283, 287, 292,
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321, 322, 388, 395-7; friendship with Asquiths, 93*2, 104, 267, 270, 271*2, 329*22, 340, 480, 483-4 Blake, Robert, author of
The Unknown Prime Minister
, 272, 288, 289, 292, 294, 320, 407, 431, 439, 440, 456 Blakiston, H. E. W., 511 “ Blue Posts ” inn, 46 Bonham Carter, Sir Maurice, 262, 264, 270, 313-H,
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Bonham Carter, Lady Violet (Violet Asquith): political talents, 30-1,

485-8, 495, 498-9, 503-4; and Haldane, 34-5; and suffragette attack on Asquith, 246; and “The Wharf” incident, 289; mentioned, 70, 129, 154, 176, 181, 258, 260, 261, 262, 264, 270, 314, 328, 332, 460, 462, 466 Booth, Gen. William, 77 Boris, Grand Duke, 268 Botha, Gen. Louis, 168 Bourne, Cardinal Francis, 190-2 Bowen, Charles, Lord Bowen, 27, 35,
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Brace, William, 390 Bradlaugh case, 36 Bradley, Andrew C., 23, 24, 25 Breadalbane, Lady, 510 Briand, Aristide, 233, 385, 389, 419-20, 462*1

Bridges, Lady (Florry), 414 Bridges, Robert S., 294**

Bright, John, 35,
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514 Broadbent, Henry, 23, 24 Brodrick,W. St. John, Earl of Midleton, 24,
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Brooke, Rupert, 363

Brownlow, Adelaide, Countess of, 76*1

Bryce, James, Viscount Bryce, 6r, 67, 97,

107, 117, 118, 123, 158, 167, 172, 403, 480, 489

Buckingham Palace conferences, on Ireland, 319-23; December 1916,
455-6

Buckle, G. E., 49, 179 Buckmaster, Sir Stanley, Viscount Buck-master, 362, 458, 486, 497, 516 Budgets: Harcourt’s, 1894, 82-3, 84, 160; 1902,133,136; Asquith’s, 167-8; Lloyd George’s, 194, 195-9, 204-6, 209

Burge, Hubert Murray, Bishop (of Southwark, then Oxford), 480, 507 Burke, Frederick, 48 Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, 47 Burns, John, 47, 158, 194, 198, 237, 238, 248, 266, 270, 304, 325, 328-9 Burt, Thomas, 58

Buxton, Sydney Charles, Earl Buxton, 45, 46, 60, 159, 195, 237, 239, 516

Cadbury, George, 118 Calais conference, August 1916, 411-12 Cambon, Paul, 242-3, 245, 266, 325-6, 328

Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 488 Campbell case, 502, 503 Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, 67, 86, 88, 97; leader of the party, 107-12; and Boer war, 103, 113-33; and Education Bill, 135; and tariff reform, 140-50; becomes Prime Minister, 151-5, 160-1, 162, 164, 167-74, 186, 336; and Anglo-French entente, 243, 244; illness and death, 177-9, 181, 182, 184, 185; memorial, 246

Campbell-Bannerman, Lady, 114/1, 142, 155, 174, 185,

Canterbury, Archbishops of: Edward

W. Benson, 93//; Randall Davidson (Lord Davidson of Lambeth), 170, 187, 188/7, 220, 229, 310, 344, 511; Cosmo Gordon Lang (Lord Lang of Lambeth), 265

Carnarvon, 4th Earl of (H. H. Molyneux), 25

Carpenter, John, 17

Carson, Sir Edward, Lord Carson: as barrister, 47, 91, 92, 252; and House of Lords, 229; as Ulster leader, 274, 277-8, 281, 286, 291, 295-7, 301-3, 305-7> 545-6; and Lame gun-running, 316-17; and Buckingham Palace conference, 319-21, 323; and Irish rebellion, 399-401; member of Asquith’s government, 368, 369, 370, 375. 376, 385; leads Unionist back-benchers, 393, 394/2, 408, 416-18; and fall of Asquith, 421-8, 430, 432-4, 438-41, 445, 447»; becomes First Lord of Admiralty, 450-1, 459; and Maurice debate, 469-71; on Asquith, 490

Casement, Sir Roger, 395, 403-4

Cassel, Mrs. 180

Cassel, Sir Ernest J., 267

Cave, Sir George, Viscount Cave, 488/2,
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Cawdor, 3rd Earl of(F. A. V. Campbell), 214

Cecil, Lord Hugh, Lord Quickswood, 141, 227//, 275, 471

Cecil, Lord Robert, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 376, 394, 400-1, 511; and fall of Asquith, 422//, 425, 427, 428, 438, 439, 440,
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Chaliapin, Fedor I, 266

Chalmers, Sir Robert, 397-8

Chamberlain, (Sir) Austen, 31, 160, 265, 488, 495; and constitutional conference, 214; and conscription, 371, 387-8, 394; and Irish rebellion, 400; and war direction, 409, 417; and fall of Asquith,
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427, 428, 436-8, 439, 440,
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Chamberlain, Joseph, 16, 84/r, leads Liberal Unionists, 39-42, 43, 47, 57«i, 59, 86, 90, 103-4; Colonial Secretary, 101-3, non; and Ireland, in; and Boer war, 113, 115-21, 123-33, I92n; resigns from Balfour’s government, 134-5, 136-143; Order of Merit proposed for, 223 Chamberlain, Mary (Mrs. Joseph), 104,
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Chantilly conference, November 1916, 419-20

Chaplin, Henry, Viscount Chaplin, 57
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Chelmsford, Viscount (F.J. N. Thesiger),
427
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437

Chesterton, Cecil, 251, 252 Church appointments, 187 Churchill, Clementine (Mrs. Winston) 259n, 261, 269, 325, 361 Churchill, Lady Gwendeline, 261, 269 Churchill, Lord Randolph, 24, 42, 47, 53, 57», 63, 274, 298; and Margot,
76
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77

Churchill, (Sir) Winston, 4m, 258, 461/1, 486-7; Asquith’s friendship with and opinion of, 259«, 260, 261, 269, 271,
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, 496-7; joins Liberal Party, 141; under-secretary for Colonies, 158, 168; President of the Board of Trade, 181-2, 193; Home Secretary, 69,223-4,237; and women’s suffrage, 248; and Lloyd George’s budget, 119-200, 203, 205-6, 210; and constitutional crisis, 216, 222, 227/1, 230; and Ireland, 274, 286-8, 304-6, 309, 310, 313-14, 319
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and naval estimates, 193, 194, 298-300; and coming of war, 239-43, 252, 325, 327,
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494