Born in Morley, Yorkshire. Prime Minister 1908 to 1916. 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith. Died Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire. The Suffragettes' enemy. Film director Anthony Asquith was his son and Lady Violet Bonham-Carter his daughter.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
H. H. Asquith
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Herbert Asquith - NW3
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, 1852 - 1928, Prime Min...
Herbert Asquith - W1
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, 1852 - 1928, statesman...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
H. H. Asquith
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Lincoln's Inn war memorial
We have never seen so many Cecils, Cyrils and Cuthberts on a war memorial, le...
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Match tax abandoned
I871 the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert Lowe, proposed a tax on matches. The Bryant and May workers, mainly girls, realised this threatened their jobs and marched in protest on the House of C...
2 memorials
C. F. Pritchard
Clive Fleetwood Pritchard was born in 1864 in Canonbury, the eldest of the eight children of Andrew Goring Pritchard (1834-1928) and Marianne Pritchard née Titford (1839-1920). His birth was regist...
1 memorial
Thomas Baring
Banker and politician, grandson of the bank founder Sir Francis. Born Lee, near Lewisham, Kent. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1851. Died at Fontmell Lodge, Bournemouth.
1 memorial
Benjamin Hopkins
Chamberlain of London from 1776 to 1779. The holder of the post of Chamberlain was originally responsible for the collection and distribution of revenues within the City of London. The birth date i...
1 memorial
Sir Joseph Rotblat
Born Warsaw. gained a doctorate in physics in 1939 and then came to the UK but could not get his wife out and she died in a concentration camp. In 1944 he joined the Manhatten Project to develop nu...
1 memorial
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
St John the Evangelist Palmers Green - war memorial
N13, Bourne Hill, 1
An unusual memorial featuring Christ embracing a wounded soldier. Restored in 2014, but not the names. We cannot transcribe them and we c...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Zachary Macaulay
Anti-slavery campaigner. Born Scotland. Aged 16 emigrated to Jamaica and saw slavery first hand as a slave overseer on a sugar plantation. Returned to England 1789. Sister Jean’s husband, Thomas Ba...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Africa, Jamaica, Scotland
4 memorials
5 memorials
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