H. H. Asquith

2026· 9 entries

Aug 21, 2026Documented record76% confidence

“a conversation I had recently with Arthur Acland about early days when Acland, Asquith and I used to meet together often to discuss politics, and I said what a pleasant fellow he was. Acland replied, ‘Yes, but did you ever hear him make any suggestion of his own?’ I had to confess that although he discussed every proposition advanced by others with great intelligence and force, he never submitted any ideas of his own for our consideration.”

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Aug 21, 2026Documented record76% confidence

H. H. Asquith

“s behaviour as tantamount to resignation, the same as if a Cabinet Minister had refused to abide by the principle of collective responsibility. Twelve leading Liberals (including Grey, Lord Buckmaster, Simon, Maclean and Runciman) wrote in Asquith”

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Aug 21, 2026Documented record76% confidence

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“neither a suppliant nor a penitent”

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Aug 21, 2026Documented record76% confidence

H. H. Asquith

“When I fully realised what a position had been created, I saw that I could not go on without dishonour or impotence, or both.”

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Aug 21, 2026Documented record76% confidence

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“He is the oldest personal and political friend that I have in the world and, with him, you and I have stood together for the best part of 30 years.”

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Aug 21, 2026Documented record76% confidence

H. H. Asquith

“Once the governing objectives have been decided by Ministers at home—the execution should always be left to the untrammeled discretion of the commanders on the spot.”

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Aug 21, 2026Documented record76% confidence

H. H. Asquith

“The Cabinet was hopelessly divided—fully one third, if not one half, being opposed to our entry into the War. After the German ultimatum to Belgium the Cabinet was almost unanimous.”

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Aug 21, 2026Documented record76% confidence

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“the country into war without civil disturbance or political schism”

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Aug 21, 2026Documented record76% confidence

H. H. Asquith

“purpose was to remove the obstruction, not establish an ideal upper house,”

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1970· 2 entries

1970Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Basil Liddell Hart summed up opinion as to the reasons for his fall: "Lloyd George [came to] power as the spokesman for a widespread demand for a more vigorous as well as a more efficient prosecution of the war

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1970Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Felt there was still much to be gleaned from a critical review of Asquith's peacetime premiership, "certainly, the record of a prime minister under whom the nation goes to the brink of civil war [over Ireland] must be su

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1928· 7 entries

Feb 15, 1928Documented record86% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Died 1928-02-15.

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c. 1928Exact date was not recorded in the sourceDirect quote66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

“[O]ne thing is certain, that the Budget of next year will stand at the very centre of our work, by which, I was going to say, we shall stand or fall, by which certainly we shall be judged in the estimation both of the present and of posterity.”

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c. 1928Exact date was not recorded in the sourceDirect quote67% confidence

H. H. Asquith

“[W]here we were obliged to part company with our friends was here—that we held and still hold that war was neither intended nor desired by the Government and the people of Great Britain, but that it was forced upon us without adequate reason, entirely against our will.”

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c. 1928Exact date was not recorded in the sourceDirect quote68% confidence

H. H. Asquith

“So far from enjoying the undisputed hegemony which was so confidently predicted for British trade 50 years ago, there was not now an inch of ground in any one of the international markets for which we were not fighting with all our available strength. We had long ceased to enjoy that relative superiority in natural advantages with which we started upon the race.”

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c. 1928Exact date was not recorded in the sourceDirect quote66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

“In view of this grave and unprecedented outrage, the House may be assured that his Majesty's Government will take without delay appropriate steps to vindicate the authority of the law and to protect officers and servants of the King and his Majesty's subjects in the exercise of their duties and in the enjoyment of their legal rights.”

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c. 1928Exact date was not recorded in the sourceDirect quote65% confidence

H. H. Asquith

“[T]hree of the most important resolutions, namely, those relating to the Most-Favoured-Nation treatment, protection against dumping or unfair competition, and the adoption of measures to render the Allies independent of enemy countries as regards essential industries, were proposed by the British delegates and passed at the Conference in the form in which they were put forward.”

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c. 1928Exact date was not recorded in the sourceDirect quote68% confidence

H. H. Asquith

“[W]e claim to start from and to maintain in all our political action this fundamental principle—that the interests of the community as a whole ought to be paramount over the interests of any class, any interest, or any section which that community contains. That is the root and spring of Liberalism.”

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1927· 1 entry

1927Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Was Lord Beaverbrook (the former Max Aitken), who contributed £1,000

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1925· 1 entry

1925Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Stood for the Chancellorship of Oxford University, vacant on the death of Lord Curzon

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1924· 2 entries

1924Source gives the year onlyCampaignDocumented record76% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Campaign: 1924 election.

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1924Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

The Liberal Party had only been able to put up 343 candidates due to lack of money

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1923· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1923Documented record84% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Career landmark: member of the 33rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1923–1924).

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1922· 2 entries

1922Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Is evidence that "the most important factor influencing Asquith against quick reunion was his personal dislike of Lloyd George and his desire for vengeance

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Jan 1, 1922Documented record84% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Career landmark: member of the 32nd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1922–1923).

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1921· 1 entry

1921Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

H. H. Asquith

The National Liberal Federation adopted an industrial programme without Asquith's agreement

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1920· 4 entries

Jan 1, 1920Documented record84% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Career landmark: member of the 31st Parliament of the United Kingdom (1920–1922).

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1920Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

H. H. Asquith

As an economy measure, 20 Cavendish Square was sold to Viscountess Cowdray and Asquith and Margot moved to 44, Bedford Square

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Jan 1, 1920Documented record76% confidence

H. H. Asquith

“The post-war Liberal day never achieved more than a grey and short-lived light. By 1924, it was dusk again. By 1926, for Asquith, it was political night.”

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Jan 1, 1920Documented record84% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Career landmark: Leader of the Opposition (1920–1922).

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1919· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1919Documented record76% confidence

H. H. Asquith

“he talked a lot of nonsense about Germany sinking never to rise again.”

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1916· 3 entries

Jan 1, 1916Documented record84% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Career landmark: Leader of the Opposition (1916–1918).

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Jan 1, 1916Documented record84% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Career landmark: Member of the Privy Council of Ireland (1916).

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1916Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

A group of Irish Volunteers and members of the Irish Citizen Army seized a number of key buildings and locations in Dublin and elsewhere

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1915· 2 entries

1915Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

With the Labour and Conservative Parties, but criticism of his leadership continued to grow

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Jan 1, 1915Documented record76% confidence

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“Gradually every man with the average number of limbs and faculties is being sucked out to the war.”

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1914· 3 entries

Jan 1, 1914Documented record84% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Career landmark: Secretary of State for War (1914–1914).

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1914Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Asquith led the United Kingdom and the British Empire into the First World War

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1914Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

"the political, social and cultural revolution had already happened

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1913· 2 entries

1913Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

A committee was established to develop a land reform scheme

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1913Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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While complaining of the "exaggerated language" on both sides, "I am sometimes tempted to think, as one listens to the arguments of supporters of women's suffrage, that there is nothing to be said for it, and I am someti

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1912· 5 entries

1912Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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One of these, Venetia Stanley, became much closer

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Jan 1, 1912Documented record76% confidence

H. H. Asquith

“Ireland is a nation, not two nations but one nation. There are few cases in history, ...of nationality at once so distinct, so persistent and so assimilative as the Irish.”

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1912Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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And 1913, but having been forced through under the Parliament Act 1911 received royal assent as the Welsh Church Act 1914 in September 1914, with the provisions suspended by the Suspensory Act 1914 until war's end

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1912Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Asquith reluctantly agreed to permit a free vote on an amendment to a pending reform bill, allowing women the vote on the same terms as men

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1912Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Asquith said: "Ireland is a nation, not two nations but one nation

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1911· 3 entries

1911Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Granting MPs a salary, making it more feasible for working-class people to serve in the House of Commons

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1911Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Planned the Third Home Rule Bill opposed any special status for Protestant Ulster within majority-Catholic Ireland

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1911Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

There were fears of a potential miner's strike immediately following a railwaymen's strike in August

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1910· 5 entries

Nov 1910Source gives the month, not a specific dayElection outcomeDocumented record76% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Election lost: 1910: election and constitutional deadlock.

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1910Source gives the year onlyCampaignDocumented record76% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Campaign: 1910–1911: second election and Parliament Act.

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Jan 1, 1910Documented record84% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Career landmark: member of the 30th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1910–1918).

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Jan 1, 1910Documented record84% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Career landmark: member of the 29th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1910–1910).

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1910Source gives the year onlyCampaignDocumented record76% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Campaign: 1910: election and constitutional deadlock.

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1909· 1 entry

1909Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Asquith fought two general elections in 1910 before securing passage of the Parliament Act 1911, which greatly reduced the Lords' power to block legislation

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1908· 8 entries

Jan 1, 1908Documented record84% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Career landmark: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1908–1916).

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Jan 1, 1908Documented record76% confidence

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“policy agenda, and the People”

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1908Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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During his premiership, despite some objection in the Lords

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1908Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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To propose the laying down of eight more British ones in the following three years

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Jan 1, 1908Documented record84% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Career landmark: Leader of the House of Commons (1908–1916).

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Jan 1, 1908Documented record84% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Career landmark: First Lord of the Treasury (1908–1916).

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Jan 1, 1908Documented record84% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Career landmark: rector (1908–1911).

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1908Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Which were defeated or heavily amended in the Lords, including a Licensing Bill, a Scottish Small Landholders' Bill, and a Scottish Land Values Bill

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1906· 4 entries

1906Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

At the time the Liberals took office, there was an ongoing crisis between France and Germany over Morocco, and the French asked for British help in the event of conflict

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1906Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Was constrained by the annual income and expenditure plans he had inherited from his predecessor Austen Chamberlain

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Jan 1, 1906Documented record84% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Career landmark: member of the 28th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1906–1910).

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1906Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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The suffragettes Annie Kenney, Adelaide Knight and Jane Sbarborough were arrested when they tried to obtain an audience with Asquith

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1905· 2 entries

1905Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Asquith had to give up a £10,000 brief to act for the Khedive of Egypt

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Jan 1, 1905Documented record84% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Career landmark: Chancellor of the Exchequer (1905–1908).

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1903· 1 entry

1903Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

(while in opposition) that the party should never take office if that government would be dependent for survival on the support of the Irish Nationalist Party

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1900· 1 entry

1900Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

But did not foresee the sheer scale of the defeat

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1895· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1895Documented record84% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Career landmark: member of the 26th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1895–1900).

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1893· 1 entry

1893Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Asquith responded to a request from Magistrates in the Wakefield area for reinforcements to police a mining strike

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1892· 3 entries

Jan 1, 1892Documented record84% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Career landmark: Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom (1892).

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Jan 1, 1892Documented record84% confidence

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Career landmark: Home Secretary (1892–1895).

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Jan 1, 1892Documented record84% confidence

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Career landmark: member of the 25th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1892–1895).

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1889· 1 entry

1889Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

When he was named junior counsel to Sir Charles Russell at the Parnell Commission of Enquiry

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1887· 1 entry

1887Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

And 1888, he defended the radical Liberal MP Cunninghame Graham, who was charged with assaulting police officers when they attempted to break up a demonstration in Trafalgar Square

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1886· 1 entry

1886Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

In which many Liberal peers had become Liberal Unionists, who by this time had almost merged with the Conservatives

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1875· 1 entry

1875Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Served a pupillage under Charles Bowen

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1874· 1 entry

1874Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Asquith spent several months coaching Viscount Lymington, the 18-year-old son and heir of the Earl of Portsmouth

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1872· 2 entries

1872Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

But was defeated at his first attempt at the Presidency

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1872Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Again proxime accessit for the Ireland Prize in 1873, and again for the Ireland in 1874, on that occasion coming so close that the examiners awarded him a special prize of books

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1864· 1 entry

1864Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

For business reasons, they remained in London and were lodged with various families

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1863· 1 entry

1863Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

H. H. Asquith

William Willans died, and the family came under the care of Emily's brother, John Willans

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H. H. Asquith

When it was submitted again in a finance bill

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Sep 12, 1852Documented record86% confidence

H. H. Asquith

Born 1852-09-12.

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