Asquith, had come under attack for allowing an anarchist meeting to commemorate the Chicago Haymarket martyrs.

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Ros Asquith and Monty Python's Terry Jones were also nominated in the seven to 14 age category.

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To him, a more appropriate historical comparison is between Obama and Liberal Party politicians, including HH Asquith.

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Among them, Lloyd George's grandson, Viscount Tenby, and Lady Bonham-Carter, great-granddaughter of LG's great Liberal rival Herbert Henry Asquith.

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Asquith's bill would have created a two chamber parliament in Dublin, and substantially reduced the number of Irish MPs sitting in Westminster.

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Ambassador Dominic Asquith, who was not hurt in the attack, is in Tripoli, and the "whole staff is safe and sound, " the representative said.

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"The FTT can work, and the UK's stamp duty is a good example of that, " said Richard Asquith, the head of tax at accountancy firm TMF Group.

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His most recent partner was the biographer, Lady Annunziata Asquith.

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Mr Blair may never have shared the reputation for drinking of some of his predecessors, notably Herbert "Squiffy" Asquith who was known to sway when on his feet in the Commons.

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Mr Blair also emphasises the continuities between the welfare state reforms of Attlee, and the earlier reforms carried out by the New Liberal government of Asquith and Lloyd George before the first world war.

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