20 Facts About Margot Asquith

Emma Alice Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, known as Margot Asquith, was a British socialite and author.

An opponent of women's suffrage, whose autobiography was lampooned, Lady Oxford and Asquith was a controversial yet colourful character in her time.

Margot Asquith never knew one of her five sisters and three of her six brothers, who died young.

Margot Asquith was of Scottish and English descent and was a great-great-granddaughter of John Walter, founder of The Times.

Margot Asquith was a "venturesome child", for example roaming the moors, climbing to the top of the roof by moonlight, riding her horse up the front steps of the estate house.

Laura married Alfred Lyttelton in 1885 and died in 1888, and Margot Asquith's life was strongly impacted by these events.

Margot Asquith brought him into the glittering social world, which he had in no way experienced with his first wife, who Asquith had known and always spoke of warmly.

Margot Asquith became an unenthusiastic stepmother to five children, who were bemused by Margot Asquith, so different from their quiet mother.

Margot Asquith to write lamentingly of how the two were "on terms of chronic misunderstanding".

Margot Asquith bore five children of her own, two of them surviving infancy.

Elizabeth Margot Asquith, born in 1897, later married Prince Antoine Bibesco of Romania in 1919 and became a writer of some note.

Anthony Margot Asquith, born in 1902, became a leading English film director.

Until they moved to the prime minister's residence at 10 Downing Street in 1908, the Margot Asquith home was a huge house in Cavendish Square in London, with a staff of 14 servants.

Margot Asquith's husband was in office as British Prime Minister from April 1908 to December 1916.

Margot Asquith hinted that she was associated with the conspirators.

Margot Asquith became Countess of Oxford and Asquith in 1925 when her husband was granted a peerage.

Margot Asquith's autobiography was part of a new trend of revelatory political books written close in time to the events described, including Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians in 1918, John Maynard Keynes' The Economic Consequences of the Peace in 1919 and Lord Beaverbrook's Politicians and the War in 1928.

Margot Asquith was left in near penury and her financial position caused her constant concern.

Margot Asquith told Harold Nicolson that Neville Chamberlain was "the greatest Englishman that ever lived" for signing the Munich Agreement.

Margot Asquith schemed for her rescue, but Elizabeth died of pneumonia in April 1945; heartbroken, she outlived her daughter by three months.