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Her husband left her only £300 (equivalent to £23,000 in 2023) on his death in 1928 as he had to use his life insurance to provide for his children. She was left in near penury and her financial position caused her constant concern. Thereafter she made money by advising on "matters of taste" in
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In the late 1920s, Margot and her husband were seriously in debt: she admitted to owing £15,000 (equivalent to £1,142,000 in 2023) and having pawned her pearls for £2,000 despite, she claimed, having made £18,000 from books and £10,000 from various writings. A whip-round of Liberal sympathisers
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and became a "spur to his ambition". She brought him into the glittering social world, which he had in no way experienced with his first wife, who Margot had known and always spoke of warmly. Margot also became an unenthusiastic stepmother to five children, who were bemused by Margot, so different
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The arms of The Earl of Oxford & Aquith (Sable on a fess between three cross-crosslets argent a portcullis of the field) impaled with the arms of Tennant baronets of The Glen & St Rollox (Argent, two crescents in fess sable on a chief gules a boar's head couped of the
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told of Asquith's "stealth" journey when travelling with her husband as Prime Minister, via Wolverhampton and the Holyhead ferry, to Dublin, where the ferry was met by a yacht of
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Margot published her autobiography in 1920. Her writing style was not always critically accepted—the most famous review of Margot's work came from New York wit
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and correcting Harlow's mispronunciation of her first name – "No, no; the 't' is silent, as in 'Harlow'." The story was recorded by the Liberal MP
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The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility ...
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in his diary entry for 26 June 1934, but Bernays does not claim to have witnessed the alleged encounter himself.
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and, in 1911, she "seemed highly amused at the earnestness" of women's suffrage lobbyists, whilst near to
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in London, with a staff of 14 servants. The residence of most importance in the life of the Asquiths was
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Her final overwhelming sadness was the separation from her daughter Elizabeth, who had been trapped in
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Margot's autobiographical revelations about her boisterous youth and early suitors were satirised by
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Parker, Dorothy (as Constant Reader.) "Re-enter Margot Asquith – A Masterpiece from the French",
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Haig and Kitchener in Twentieth-Century Britain: Remembrance, Representation and Appropriation
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Oscar Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century
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Munro, Neil, "Reminiscences", in Osborne, Brian D. & Armstrong, Ronald (eds.) (2002),
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grew up wild and uninhibited. Margot was a "venturesome child", for example roaming the
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Her husband was in office as British Prime Minister from April 1908 to December 1916.
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in 1885 and died in 1888, and Margot's life was strongly impacted by these events.
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together in London in 1881. She and Laura became the central female figures of an
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In 1920, the mansion in Cavendish Square was sold and the Asquiths moved to 44
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she was a member of the famed aristocratic group of intellectuals called "
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in his Erchie MacPherson story, "Reminiscences", first published in the
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in April 1945; heartbroken, she outlived her daughter by three months.
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Margot bore five children of her own, two of them surviving infancy.
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Margot was known for her outspokenness and acerbic wit. A possibly
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since 1940. Margot schemed for her rescue, but Elizabeth died of
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Rise up, women! : the remarkable lives of the suffragettes
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was "the greatest Englishman that ever lived" for signing the
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interior design and advertising Wix cigarettes, often issued "
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Bodleian Library catalogue of Margot Asquith's private papers
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but typical story has her meeting the American film actress
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from 1894 to his death in 1928. Known for her wit, in late
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Emma Alice Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith
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Until they moved to the prime minister's residence at
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wrote: "She flashed into our lives like some dazzling
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The Diaries and Letters of Robert Bernays, 1932–1939
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Margot's diaries covering 1914–16 were published by
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Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit (1864–1945)
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Index

Margot Tennant
The Right Honourable

The Glen
Peeblesshire
All Saints' Church, Sutton Courtenay
Spouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith
Elizabeth
Anthony
Sir Charles Tennant, Bt
Tennant family
Asquith family

née
British Prime Minister
H. H. Asquith
Victorian society
The Souls
women's suffrage
The Glen
country estate
Peeblesshire
Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet
John Walter
The Times
Laura
moors
estate house
Riding

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