• The 1925 University of Oxford election for the position of Chancellor was called upon the death of the incumbent Chancellor, George Curzon, 1st Marquess...
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    of chancellors of the University of Oxford in England by year of appointment. 2024 University of Oxford Chancellor election List of vice-chancellors of...
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  • 1987 University of Oxford election for the position of Chancellor was called upon the death of the incumbent Chancellor, Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton...
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  • first election for Oxford Chancellor to be contested since 1925. The electorate consisted of all members of the University holding the rank of Master of Arts...
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    Earl of Oxford and Asquith is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1925 for the Liberal politician H. H. Asquith. He was Home...
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    occupied by salonière Ottoline Morrell. She became Countess of Oxford and Asquith in 1925 when her husband was granted a peerage. Asquith published her...
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    Lord Cave, who was later to defeat him for the Chancellorship of Oxford University in 1925. Paisley was a false dawn, for the Liberals and for Asquith personally...
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    the peerage as Earl of Oxford and Asquith in 1925. Later she became active in Liberal politics herself, and was a leading opponent of appeasement. She stood...
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    Lady Cynthia Asquith (category Daughters of Scottish earls)
    show". Daily Mirtor. p. 6. Retrieved 22 January 2022. "Oxford and Asquith, Earl of (UK, 1925)". cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved...
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    Elizabeth Bibesco (category Daughters of British earls)
    The Whole Story, 1925 – short stories There is No Return, 1927 – novel Points of View, 1927 – play Poems, 1927 – poetry Portrait of Caroline, 1931 – novel...
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    Anthony Asquith (category Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford)
     25. "Asquith, Anthony (1902–1968))". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30479. (Subscription...
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    Herbert Asquith (poet) (category Presidents of the Oxford Union)
    "Beb" by his family, he was the second son of H. H. Asquith, British Prime Minister and the younger brother of Raymond Asquith. Asquith was greatly affected...
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    rather than his Cabinet colleague Lord Cave, in the 1925 University of Oxford Chancellor election. He wrote to The Times on 19 May, describing Asquith...
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  • general election 1925 Oldham by-election 1925 Stockport by-election 1925 University of Oxford Chancellor election 1925 Southwark Borough election 1925 Guatemalan...
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    Perdita's grandchildren included the actress Anna Chancellor. Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith KCMG (1916–2011), who married Anne Palairet...
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    worthless "scrap of paper" (the words of German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg in ridiculing the Treaty of London). Germany, as part of a massive attack...
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    Raymond Asquith (category Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford)
    nearly ten years before his father was raised to the House of Lords in 1925 as Earl of Oxford and Asquith. Katharine eventually inherited Mells Manor because...
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    1928–1930. After the 1928 German federal election, a grand coalition was formed under the Social Democratic chancellor Hermann Müller. The coalition collapsed...
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    Liberal government, 1905–1915 (category Ministries of Edward VII)
    supported by 29 Labour Party MPs. Chancellor David Lloyd George crafted the People's Budget and introduced a great deal of social legislation, such as old...
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    Hitler chancellor on 30 January 1933. Hindenburg dissolved the Reichstag on 1 February, and in the election of March 1933, the Nazi Party won only 44% of the...
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    the 1919 federal election with 37.9 per cent of votes, and Ebert became the first president in February. The position of chancellor was held by Social...
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    half of the seats in the Reichstag after the July 1932 election. This made it impossible to form a government composed of moderates. Chancellor Franz...
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  • is a list of notable people associated with Balliol College, Oxford, including alumni and Masters of the college. When available, year of matriculation...
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  • in the chambers of William Jowitt who, as Lord Chancellor, recommended Asquith's promotions to the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords. Asquith's...
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    Federal elections were held in Germany on 31 July 1932, following the premature dissolution of the Reichstag. The Nazi Party made significant gains and...
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  • were. The main objectives of the plotters were to secure Cabinet places for Asquith as Leader of the Commons and Chancellor of the Exchequer, with Grey...
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    Arthur Asquith (category Alumni of New College, Oxford)
    British Prime Minister during the first three years of the conflict and later became the Earl of Oxford and Asquith. Arthur Asquith was wounded four times...
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    Harold Tennant (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
    John [Jack] (1865-1935), politician". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58263. Retrieved...
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  • Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner (category Chancellors of the Open University)
    Baron Gardiner (1900–1990), lord chancellor". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40090...
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    Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner (category Lords High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland)
    elected as Liberal Member of Parliament for Salisbury at the 1906 general election, holding the seat until the 1910 general election. He succeeded his father...
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