The Untold Story Of Raymond Asquith

Raymond asquith came up to balliol college as a scholar in 1897 and held an all souls fellowship from 1903 to 1910. His father, who had also been a balliol scholar, became prime minister in. Called to the bar at the inner temple in 1904, raymond chaffed against the boredom of much legal work and in 1913 was adopted as the liberal candidate for derby. Asquith was junior counsel in the north atlantic fisheries arbitration and the british wreck commissioner's inquiry into the sinking of the rms titanic, and was considered a putative. The eldest son of the prime minister, with an outstanding academic record at oxford, raymond asquith devoted his great talents to friendship, preferring conversation and literature to the.