Asquith, Herbert Henry, (1852-1928), 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, statesman

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Alternative name(s):	Oxford and Asquith (Also known as)
Surname:	Asquith
Forenames:	Herbert Henry
Gender:	Male
Date:	1852-1928
Title:	1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith
History:	MP (Liberal) from 1886-1918 (East Fife) and 1920-1924 (Paisley), and Liberal leader until 1926. Home Secretary 1892-1895, and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1905-1908. Prime Minister 1908-1916. Created Earl in 1925.
Biography:	ODNB link for Asquith, Herbert Henry (1852-1928) 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, statesman
References:	DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P274903 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P139624 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Herbert Henry Asquith

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1890-1968: Treasury: Papers of Sir Frederick Leith-Ross	The National Archives, Kew	T 188
2	1864-1929: corresp and papers	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Asquith	NRA 12685 See Hazlehurst, Whitehead & Woodland, Guide to the papers of British cabinet ministers 1900-1964, 1996
3	1864-1927: corresp and misc papers	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS. Eng. c.6714-17, d.3314-15, d.3204, d.3206-8, d.3211-13, c.6666, c.6673, d.3275, c.6685-92, c.6698, d.3314, c.6714-17, d.3317 passim	NRA 42917
4	1915: engagement diary	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng hist g 24
5	1917-27: letters to Lady Aberconway	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 52550
6	1899-1924: letters to Lord Aberdeen	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS55	NRA 9758
7	c1906-36: corresp with Viscount Addison	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Addison dep c 208	NRA 42344
8	1892-1913: letters to Lord Alverstone	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng lett e 159
9	1913-25: corresp with AJ Balfour	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD433	NRA 10026 Balfour See NRA(S)0012
10	1891-1916: corresp with Arthur James Balfour	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 49692 Passim
11	1898-1919: letters to Sir Thomas Barlow	Wellcome Collection	PP/BAR	NRA 41070 Barlow
12	1918-35: corresp with Lord Beaverbrook	Parliamentary Archives	BBK C/265	NRA 19284 Aitken
13	corresp with JE Burns	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 46282
14	1893-1908: corresp with Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 41210
15	corresp with Edward Carson	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D1507	NRA 17985 Carson
16	1913-44: corresp with Lord Cecil	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 51073
17	1898-99: corresp with Joseph Chamberlain	University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections	JC	NRA 12604 Chamberlain
18	1910-26: letters to Lord D'Abernon	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 48928
19	1909: corresp with Lord Derby	Liverpool Record Office	920 DER	NRA 20761
20	1891-1916: letters (23) to Lady Desborough	Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies	D/ERV	NRA 26768
21	1893-1908: letters to Sir Charles Dilke	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 43877
22	1892-98: letters (13) to TE Ellis	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	TE Ellis	NRA 26129 Ellis
23	1904-14: corresp (9 items) with Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	Ellis-Griffith Papers 188-91, 298-304	NRA 37534
24	1901-26: corresp with Lord Emmott	Oxford University: Nuffield College Library	Emmott papers	NRA 17309 Emmott
25	1893-1917: letters (12) to Sir Edward Evans	Liverpool Record Office	2662	NRA 18343 Evans
26	1909-19: corresp with Lord Fisher	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	FISR	NRA 16615 Fisher
27	letters to HAL Fisher	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Fisher	NRA 16446 Fisher
28	1892-1926: corresp with Lord Gladstone	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 45989, 46476-78
29	1887-94: corresp with WE Gladstone	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 44117-789 passim
30	1903-25: letters to Sir Edmund Gosse	Leeds University Library, Special Collections	Library Publications no 3	NRA 9840 Gosse
31	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
32	1885-1922: corresp with Lord Haldane	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.5902-6082
33	1896-1908: corresp with Sir Edward Walter Hamilton	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 48614	NRA 20962
34	1889-1916: corresp with Sir William Harcourt	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Harcourt	NRA 3679
35	1908-20: corresp with Lord Hardinge	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Hardinge	NRA 3853
36	1915-19: letters (344) to Sylvia Henley	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections		See Bodleian Lib Record, vol 10, no 5
37	c1916: corresp with WAS Hewins	Sheffield University: Special Collections and Archives	MS 74	NRA 42721
38	1912-26: letters to Lady Kennet	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Kennet	NRA 12509 Young
39	1893-1901: corresp with Lord Kimberley	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng a 2013-14, b 2047-49, c 3933-4514, d 2439-92, e 2790-97	NRA 1274 Wodehouse
40	1914-1916: corresp with Lord Kitchener	The National Archives	WO 159
41	1914-16: corresp with Lord Kitchener	The National Archives	PRO 30/57
42	1906-18: corresp with Andrew Bonar Law	Parliamentary Archives	BL	NRA 19286
43	1890-1919: letters to the Lewis family	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Dep c 831, 839-40, 849	NRA 40097
44	1908-26: corresp with David Lloyd-George	Parliamentary Archives	LG	NRA 15700
45	1907-23: corresp with Lord Long	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 62404
46	1915-24: letters (2) to DS MacColl	Glasgow University Library, Special Collections Department	MS MacColl	See Art History Papers 1850-1950
47	1908-11: corresp with Reginald McKenna	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	MCKN	NRA 12034 McKenna
48	1919-25: corresp with Sir Donald Maclean	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Dep c 465-68	NRA 17784 Maclean
49	1917-27: corresp with Christabel Mclaren	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 52550 Passim
50	1895-1918: corresp with Lord Midleton	The National Archives	PRO 30/67
51	1905-27: corresp with Lord Mottistone	Oxford University: Nuffield College Library	MSS MOTTISTONE
52	1912-27: corresp with Gilbert Murray	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Gilbert Murray	NRA 16865
53	1906-14: corresp with Lord Ponsonby	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng hist a 20, c 561-85, d 363	NRA 18634
54	1893-1916: corresp with John Redmond	National Library of Ireland	MS 15165
55	1894-1908: corresp with Lord Ripon	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 43518
56	1891-1926: corresp with Lord Rosebery	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.10001-10216	NRA 22490 Primrose
57	1892-1902: letters to Lord Rosebery	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS2244	NRA 10461 Primrose
58	1891-1927: letters to JH Roskill	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	REND	NRA 21872
59	1902-26: letters to Walter Runciman	Newcastle University: Special Collections	WR	NRA 13873
60	corresp with Herbert Samuel	Parliamentary Archives	SAM	NRA 11187
61	1895-1925: corresp with Lord Simon	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Simon	NRA 24981
62	1906-16: corresp with Lord Selborne	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Selborne	NRA 17810
63	corresp with JA Spender	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 46388
64	1907-24: corresp with John St Loe Strachey	Parliamentary Archives	STR	NRA 19285
65	1915-18: corresp with JH Thomas	Kent History and Library Centre	U1625	NRA 15918
66	1894-1928: letters to Sir Herbert and Lady Beerbohm Tree	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 62126
67	1911-24: letters to Lady Tree	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 62126
68	1904-26: letters to Viola Tree	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 59895, 61727
69	1901-14: corresp with CP Trevelyan	Newcastle University: Special Collections	CPT	NRA 12238 Trevelyan
70	1914-16: letters (14) to Spenser Wilkinson	National Army Museum Templer Study Centre	9011-42	NRA 6700 Wilkinson
71	1877-1910: letters	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng lett e 89
72	1897-2006: records rel to his role as parish councillor in Mells	Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)	A\DGX	See Annual Return 2011

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