H. H. Asquith

✶September 12, 1852

†February 15, 1928

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Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, was a British statesman, Liberal politician and barrister who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 until his resignation in 1916. Having served as Leader of the Opposition from 1920 to 1922, Asquith was the last member of the Liberal Party to do so, and the last prime minister from the Party to command a majority government, which he had inherited from Henry Campbell-Bannerman.

British politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916 (1852–1928)

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