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Asquith, Emma Alice Margaret, (1864-1945) Countess of Oxford and Asquith, socialite, author, and wit

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Alternative name(s):
  • Emma Alice Margaret Tennant (Maiden Name)
  • Margot Asquith (Also known as)
Surname: Asquith
Forenames: Emma Alice Margaret
Gender: Female
Date: 1864-1945
Title: Countess of Oxford and Asquith
Biography: ODNB link for Asquith, Emma Alice Margaret (1864-1945) nee Tennant, generally known as Margot, wife of 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P139412 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P918 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Emma Alice Margaret Asquith
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1876-1945: diaries, corresp and papers
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS. Eng. c.6665-6720, c.6729, d.3198-3218, d.3262-3319, e.3256-7, e.3280-92 passim
NRA 42917
2
1918-46: letters to Lady Aberconway
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 52550
3
1886-1929: corresp with Arthur Balfour
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD433
NRA 10026 Balfour

See NRA(S)0012
4
1885-1919: corresp with Arthur James Balfour
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 49794 Passim
5
corresp with JE Burns
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 46282
6
corresp with Edward Carson
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
D1507
NRA 17985 Carson
7
c1930-45: letters to Duff Cooper
Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
DUFC
NRA 31392
8
19005-23: corresp with Lord D'Abernon
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 48928, 48935
9
1923-41: letters to Geoffrey Dawson
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Dawson
NRA 25619
10
1889-1934: letters (87) to Lady Desborough
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
D/ERV
NRA 26768
11
1917-39: letters (17) to AG Gardiner
London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections
Gardiner
NRA 25119
12
1885-1922: corresp with Mary Gladstone
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 46238
13
1886-95: letters to WE Gladstone
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 44498-520 passim
14
1911-20: letters (23) to Sir Edmund Gosse
Leeds University Library, Special Collections
Library Publications no 3
NRA 9840 Gosse
15
corresp with HA Gwynne
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
Gwynne MSS
See Chris Cook, Sources in British political history 1900-1951 vol 5 1978
16
1889-1933: corresp with Lord Haldane
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS.5906-6084 passim
17
1906-07: letters to Sir EW Hamilton
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 48614
18
1894-1917: letters to Sir William and Lewis Harcourt
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Harcourt
NRA 3679
19
1916-44: letters to John Maynard Keynes
Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre
JMK
NRA 36972
20
1918-45: letters to Elizabeth, Lady Lewis and her daughter Katherine
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Dep c 831, 840
NRA 40097
21
1913-37: letters to David Lloyd George
Parliamentary Archives
LG
NRA 15700
22
1912-16: corresp with Viscount Long
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 62404
23
1921-38: corresp with David Low
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
GEN MSS 96
24
1907-45: corresp with Gilbert Murray
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Gilbert Murray
NRA 16865
25
1913-35: letters to Lord Reading
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur E 238, F 118
NRA 20531 Isaacs
26
1883-1931: corresp with Lord Rosebery
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
10080-82, 10089, 10106-15, 10119, 10124-28, 10196 Passim
27
corresp with Herbert Samuel
Parliamentary Archives
SAM
NRA 11187
28
1906-28: corresp with Lord Selborne
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Selborne
NRA 17810
29
corresp with JA Spender
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 46388
30
1904-24: corresp with John St Loe Strachey (c100 items)
Parliamentary Archives
STR
NRA 19285
31
family corresp with Tennant family
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD510
NRA 20770
32
c1894-1929: letters to Sir Herbert and Lady Beerbohm Tree
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 62126
33
1927: letters to Viola Emmie Aida Tree
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 62126
34
1937-41: letters (10) to Virginia Woolf
Sussex University Library Special Collections
SxMs 18/Letters III
NRA 19479 Woolf
Related record creators
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1
Asquith, Herbert Henry, (1852-1928), 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, statesman
spouse
Family