ASQUITH

Date "ASQUITH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1909. (references)

Specialty Definition: ASQUITH

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Biographical Satire	ASQUITH, Herbert Henry, an Englishman who helped run things in his country before 1908, and who ran things after 1908. Was also a favorite rallying point for suffragettes. Led a successful wing-dipping expedition against some of his countrymen who held titles to names and property. Also juggled dynamite in Parliament (see Lloyd-George). Ambition: Women without ambitions. Recreation: Dodging, golf. Address: Constantly in danger of a change. Clubs: Favored Radical. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
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Specialty Definition: Herbert Asquith

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Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Viscount Asquith of Morley (from 1925) (September 12, 1852 - February 15, 1928) served as the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.

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Born in Morley, Yorkshire and educated at the City of London School, he won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. After graduation he became a barrister and was called to the bar in 1876. He became prosperous in the early 1880s from practising law.
He married Helen Melland in 1877 and they had three children before she died from typhoid in 1891. In 1894 he remarried, to Margot Tennant.
Elected to Parliament in 1886 as the Liberal representative for East Fife, he achieved his first significant post in 1892 when he became Home Secretary under Gladstone. The Liberals went out of power for ten years from 1895, and he turned down an offer to lead the party in 1898.
The Liberal Party won a landslide victory in the 1905 general election, and Asquith became Chancellor of the Exchequer under Henry Campbell-Bannerman. He demonstrated his staunch support of free trade in this post. Campbell-Bannerman resigned due to illness in April 1908 and Asquith succeeded him as Prime Minister.
The Asquith government began an extensive social welfare programme, introducing government pensions in 1908. However it also became involved in an expensive naval arms race with Germany. The financing of this expenditure required funding through an increase in taxation, which together with other measures provoked a revolt in the Conservative-controlled House of Lords over David Lloyd George's 1909 budget. Such a clash had not occurred for over a hundred years.
Asquith narrowly avoided a constitutional crisis, made the powers of the Lords the issue of the elections of January and December 1910, and curbed those powers by the Parliament Act of 1911. The price of Irish support in this effort was Irish Home Rule, which Asquith delivered in legislation that was ultimately suspended owing to the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Asquith's efforts over home rule for Ireland nearly provoked a civil war in Ireland, only averted by the outbreak of a European war.
Asquith headed the Liberal government into the war. However following a cabinet split in May 1915 he became head of a new coalition government, bringing senior figures from the opposition into the cabinet. But his performance over the conduct of the war dissatisified certain Liberals and the Conservative Party. Opponents partially blamed a series of political and military disasters (including the failed offensives at the Somme and Gallipoli (1915- 1916)) and the Easter Rising in Ireland (April 1916) on Asquith. Acting to displace the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George managed to split the Liberals and on December 5, 1916 Asquith resigned. Lloyd George became head of the coalition two days later.
Asquith remained leader of the Liberal Party after 1916 and even after losing his seat in the 1918 elections. He returned to the House of Commons in 1923. Asquith played a major role in putting the minority Labour government of 1924 into office, elevating Ramsay MacDonald to the Prime Ministership.
Created Earl of Oxford and Asquith in 1925, Asquith retired to the House of Lords. The Liberals did not replace him as head of the party until 1926, when Lloyd George succeeded him.
Asquith died in 1928. Two daughters outlived him: Margot and Violet (who became a well-regarded writer) His son Raymond Asquith was killed at the Somme in 1916.

Herbert Henry Asquith's First Government, April 1908 - May 1915

H.H. Asquith - Prime Minister
Lord Loreburn - Lord Chancellor
Lord Tweedmouth - Lord President of the Council
Lord Ripon - Lord Privy Seal
David Lloyd George - Chancellor of the Exchequer
Herbert John Gladstone - Secretary of State for the Home Department
Sir Edward Grey - Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Lord Crewe - Secretary of State for the Colonies
Richard Burdon Haldane - Secretary of State for War
Lord Morley - Secretary of State for India
Reginald McKenna - First Lord of the Admiralty
Sir H.H. Fowler - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Winston Churchill - President of the Board of Trade
Lord Pentland (formerly John Sinclair) - Secretary for Scotland
Augustine Birrell - Chief Secretary for Ireland
John Burns - President of the Local Government Board
Lord Carrington - President of the Board of Agriculture
Walter Runciman - President of the Board of Education
Sydney Buxton - Postmaster-General
L.V. Harcourt - First Commissioner of Public Works

Changes
1908 - Lord Crewe succeeds Lord Ripon as Lord Privy Seal, while remaining also Colonial Secretary. Lord FitzMaurice succeeds Sir H.H. Fowler as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Wolverhampton succeeds Lord Tweedmouth as Lord President.
1909 - Herbert Samuel succeeds Lord FitzMaurice at the Duchy of Lancaster.
1910 - Lord Beauchamp succeeds Lord Wolverhampton as Lord President.
1910 - Lord Beauchamp succeeds L.V. Harcourt as First Commissioner of Public Works. Lord Morley succeeds Lord Beauchamp as Lord President. Lord Crewe succeeds Morley as India Secretary, remaining also Lord Privy Seal. L.V. Harcourt succeeds Crewe as Colonial Secretary. Winston Churchill succeeds Herbert Gladstone as Home Secretary. Sydney Buxton succeeds Churchill at the Board of Trade. Herbert Samuel succeeds Buxton as Postmaster-General. Joseph Pease succeeds Samuel as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
1911 - Winston Churchill and Reginald McKenna switch offices, Churchill taking the Admiralty and McKenna the Home Office. Lord Carrington succeeds Lord Crewe as Lord Privy Seal. Crewe remains India Secretary. Walter Runciman succeeds Lord Carrington at the Board of Agriculture. J.A. Pease succeeds Runciman at the Board of Education. C.E.H. Hobhouse succeeds Pease at the Duchy of Lancaster.
1912 - The Attorney-General, Sir Rufus Isaacs, enters the Cabinet. Lord Haldane succeeds Lord Loreburn as Lord Chancellor. John Seely succeeds Haldane as Secretary for War. Lord Crewe succeeds Lord Carrington as Lord Privy Seal, remaining also India Secretary. T. McKinnon Wood succeeds Lord Pentland as Secretary for Scotland.
1913 - Sir John Simon succeeds Sir Rufus Isaacs as Attorney-General.
1914 - John Burns succeeds Sydney Buxton as President of the Board of Trade. Herbert Samuel succeeds Burns at the Local Government Board. C.E.H. Hobhouse succeeds Samuel as Postmaster-General. C.F.G. Masterman succeeds Hobhouse at the Duchy of Lancaster.
March, 1914 - Asquith temporarily succeeds Seely as Secretary for War.
August, 1914 - Lord Beauchamp succeeds Lord Morley as Lord President. Lord Emmott succeeds Beauchamp as First Commissioner of Public Works. Walter Runciman succeeds John Burns as President of the Board of Trade. Lord Lucas succeeds Runciman at the Board of Agriculture. Lord Kitchener succeeds Asquith as Secretary for War.
January, 1915 - E.S. Montagu succeeds C.F.G. Masterman as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

Herbert Henry Asquith's Second Government May 1915 - December 1916

H.H. Asquith - Prime Minister
Lord Buckmaster - Lord Chancellor
Lord Crewe - Lord President of the Council
Lord Curzon - Lord Privy Seal
Reginald McKenna - Chancellor of the Exchequer
Sir John Simon - Secretary of State for the Home Department
Sir Edward Grey - Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Andrew Bonar Law - Secretary of State for the Colonies
Lord Kitchener - Secretary of State for War
Austen Chamberlain - Secretary of State for India
Arthur James Balfour - First Lord of the Admiralty
Winston Churchill - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Walter Runciman - President of the Board of Trade
T. McKinnon Wood - Secretary for Scotland
Augustine Birrell - Chief Secretary for Ireland
Walter Hume Long - President of the Local Government Board
Lord Selborne - President of the Board of Agriculture
Arthur Henderson - President of the Board of Education
L.V. Harcourt - First Commissioner of Public Works
David Lloyd George - Minister of Munitions
Sir Edward Carson - Attorney-General
Lord Robert Cecil - Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Lord Lansdowne - Minister without Portfolio

Changes
1915 - E.S. Montagu succeeds Churchill at the Duchy of Lancaster
January, 1916 - Sir Herbert Samuel succeeds Sir John Simon as Home Secretary
1916 - Lord Crawford succeeds Lord Selborne at the Agriculture Board. Arthur Henderson becomes Paymaster General. Lord Crewe succeeds Arthur Henderson at the Education Board. Lord Robert Cecil becomes Minister of Blockade.
June, 1916 - On the death of Lord Kitchener, Lloyd George succeeds him as Secretary for War. E.S. Montagu succeeds Lloyd George at the Ministry of Munitions. T. McKinnon Wood succeeds Montagu at the Duchy of Lancaster. H. Tennant succeeds Wood as Scottish Secretary.

Asquith was one of a select group of historical persons who are numerologically interesting because their birth date and their death date are numerical anagrams of each other. 12 September 1852 = 12.9.1852; 15 February 1928 = 15.2.1928. These both contain the group of numbers 1122589. Other people who have a similar pattern in their dates are the soprano Tatiana Troyanos, the pianist Geoffrey Parsons, and the actor Victor Jory.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Herbert Asquith."

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Crosswords: ASQUITH

Specialty definitions using "ASQUITH": GEORGE-LLOYD. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ASQUITH

Domain	Title
Books	"Puffin" Asquith: a biography of the Hon. Anthony Asquith, aesthete, aristocrat, prime minister's son and film maker (reference) Command in the Royal Naval Division: A Military Biography of Brigadier General A.M. Asquith, Dso (reference) The British Liberal Tradition: From Gladstone to Young Churchill, Asquith, and Lloyd George--Is Blair Their Heir? (Senator Keith Davey Lecture Series.) (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: ASQUITH

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Photo Album: ASQUITH

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The Hon. H.H. Asquith. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: ASQUITH

"ASQUITH" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ASQUITH" is used about 275 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	275	17,685

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Name Usage Frequency: ASQUITH

The following table summarizes the usage of "ASQUITH" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Asquith	Last name	170	53,050
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Expressions: ASQUITH

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "ASQUITH": Participants-asquith, pro-asquith.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ASQUITH

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
asquith and somerset	29
asquith	10
herbert asquith	2
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Anagrams: ASQUITH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-h-i-q-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: hiatus.
	-2 letters: quais, quash, quasi, quits, saith, squat.
	-3 letters: aits, hast, hats, haut, hist, hits, huts, qats, quai, quit, sati, shut, sith, suit, taus, this, thus, tuis, tush, utas.
	-4 letters: ais, ait, ash, has, hat, his, hit, hut, its, qat, qua, sat, sau, sha, sit, suq, tas, tau, tis, tui, uta, uts.
	-5 letters: ah, ai.
	Words containing the letters "a-h-i-q-s-t-u"
	+3 letters: squashiest.
	+5 letters: hindquarters.
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