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Ordinary</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />23 April 1951 – 24 August 1954</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_MacDermott,_Baron_MacDermott" title="John MacDermott, Baron MacDermott">The Lord MacDermott</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Somervell,_Baron_Somervell_of_Harrow" title="Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow">The Lord Somervell of Harrow</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; 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background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/High_Court_judge_(England_and_Wales)" title="High Court judge (England and Wales)">Justice of the High Court</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />28 March 1938 – 13 February 1946</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Porter,_Baron_Porter" title="Samuel Porter, Baron Porter">Sir Samuel Porter</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Frederic_Sellers" title="Frederic Sellers">Sir Frederic Sellers</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1890-02-25</span>)</span>25 February 1890<br />London, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">24 August 1954<span style="display:none">(1954-08-24)</span> (aged 64)<br />London, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Anne Stephanie Pollock </div> <div 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H. Asquith">H. H. Asquith</a><br />Helen Kelsall Melland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Balliol_College,_Oxford" title="Balliol College, Oxford">Balliol College, Oxford</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone</b>, <a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Privy Council of the United Kingdom">PC</a> (5 February 1890 – 24 August 1954) was an English <a href="/wiki/Barristers_in_England_and_Wales" title="Barristers in England and Wales">barrister</a> and judge who served as a <a href="/wiki/Lord_of_Appeal_in_Ordinary" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord of Appeal in Ordinary">Lord of Appeal in Ordinary</a> from 1951 until his death three years later. </p><p>The youngest child of British prime minister <a href="/wiki/H._H._Asquith" title="H. H. Asquith">H. H. Asquith</a> by his first wife, Cyril Asquith followed the steps of his father and eldest brother into a distinguished academic career at <a href="/wiki/Balliol_College,_Oxford" title="Balliol College, Oxford">Balliol College, Oxford</a>, before serving in the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> during the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>. After the war he practised, with modest success, at the common law bar until 1938, when he was appointed to the <a href="/wiki/High_Court_of_Justice" title="High Court of Justice">High Court</a>. He was promoted to the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Appeal_(England_and_Wales)" title="Court of Appeal (England and Wales)">Court of Appeal</a> in 1946 and to the <a href="/wiki/Judicial_functions_of_the_House_of_Lords" title="Judicial functions of the House of Lords">House of Lords</a> in 1951. The same year he was offered the <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chancellor" title="Lord Chancellor">Lord Chancellorship</a> by <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, but declined the post. </p><p>Asquith was widely regarded as possessing one of the finest minds on the bench, although his rapid rise, after an unremarkable career at the bar, was the cause for some adverse comment. According to the <i><a href="/wiki/Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</a></i>, his career was an "undistinguished—although extraordinarily lucky" one.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cyril_Asquith,_Baron_Asquith_of_Bishopstone&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born in <a href="/wiki/Hampstead" title="Hampstead">Hampstead</a>, London, Cyril Asquith was the fourth son and youngest child of the barrister <a href="/wiki/H._H._Asquith" title="H. H. Asquith">H. H. Asquith</a>, later Prime Minister and subsequently <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Oxford_and_Asquith" title="Earl of Oxford and Asquith">Earl of Oxford and Asquith</a>, from his first marriage to Helen Kelsall Melland. His mother died in 1891, a year after his birth.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Known to his friends as Cys, Asquith was educated at <a href="/wiki/Summer_Fields_School" title="Summer Fields School">Summer Fields School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Winchester_College" title="Winchester College">Winchester College</a>, where he was a <a href="/wiki/Scholarship" title="Scholarship">scholar</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Balliol_College,_Oxford" title="Balliol College, Oxford">Balliol College, Oxford</a>, where he was a foundation scholar.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following in the steps of his father and his brother <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Asquith" title="Raymond Asquith">Raymond</a>, Cyril Asquith obtained <a href="/wiki/British_undergraduate_degree_classification" title="British undergraduate degree classification">first-class honours</a> in <a href="/wiki/Classical_Moderations" class="mw-redirect" title="Classical Moderations">Classical Moderations</a> in 1911 and in <a href="/wiki/Literae_Humaniores" class="mw-redirect" title="Literae Humaniores"><i>literae humaniores</i></a> in 1913. At Oxford he won the Hertford, Craven, Ireland, and <a href="/wiki/Eldon_Law_Scholarship" title="Eldon Law Scholarship">Eldon</a> scholarships. In 1913, while still an undergraduate, he was elected a fellow of <a href="/wiki/Magdalen_College,_Oxford" title="Magdalen College, Oxford">Magdalen College, Oxford</a>. Naturally reserved, he did not follow his brothers Raymond and <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Asquith_(poet)" title="Herbert Asquith (poet)">Herbert</a>, both former presidents of the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Union" title="Oxford Union">Oxford Union</a>, in becoming involved with the Union.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a> in 1914, he was commissioned into the 1/16th (County of London) Battalion, <a href="/wiki/London_Regiment_(1908%E2%80%931938)" title="London Regiment (1908–1938)">The London Regiment</a> (<a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Westminsters" title="Queen's Westminsters">Queen's Westminster Rifles</a>) as a <a href="/wiki/Second_lieutenant" title="Second lieutenant">second lieutenant</a>, eventually reaching the rank of <a href="/wiki/Captain_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)" title="Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)">captain</a>. From 1916 to 1918 Asquith, who was deemed medically unfit for military service abroad, was employed by the <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Munitions" title="Minister of Munitions">Ministry of Munitions</a>, serving for a time on the British War Mission in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the war, Asquith was <a href="/wiki/Call_to_the_bar" title="Call to the bar">called to the bar</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Inner_Temple" title="Inner Temple">Inner Temple</a> in 1920, and was a pupil in the <a href="/wiki/Barristers%27_chambers" title="Barristers' chambers">chambers</a> of <a href="/wiki/William_Jowitt,_1st_Earl_Jowitt" title="William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt">William Jowitt</a> who, as <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chancellor" title="Lord Chancellor">Lord Chancellor</a>, recommended Asquith's promotions to the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Asquith's practice, in the common law courts, was not especially large.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between 1925 and 1938 he was Assistant <a href="/wiki/Reader_(academic_rank)" title="Reader (academic rank)">Reader</a> in Common Law to the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Legal_Education" title="Council of Legal Education">Council of Legal Education</a>. He <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Counsel" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen's Counsel">took silk</a> in 1936,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was appointed <a href="/wiki/Recorder_(judge)" title="Recorder (judge)">Recorder</a> of <a href="/wiki/Salisbury" title="Salisbury">Salisbury</a> in 1937,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was elected <a href="/wiki/Bencher" title="Bencher">bencher</a> of the Inner Temple in 1939. He was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal Party Council</a> in 1936.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Judicial_career">Judicial career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cyril_Asquith,_Baron_Asquith_of_Bishopstone&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Judicial career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Asquith was appointed a Justice of the <a href="/wiki/High_Court_of_Justice" title="High Court of Justice">High Court</a> on 28 March 1938 to fill the vacancy left by the appointment of <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Porter,_Baron_Porter" title="Samuel Porter, Baron Porter">Mr Justice Porter</a> to the House of Lords. He was assigned to the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Bench_Division" title="King's Bench Division">King's Bench Division</a> and received the customary <a href="/wiki/Knight_Bachelor" title="Knight Bachelor">knighthood</a> three days later.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His appointment caused some surprise at the bar and bench.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In particular, the <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chief_Justice_of_England_and_Wales" title="Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales">Lord Chief Justice</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Hewart,_1st_Viscount_Hewart" title="Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart">Lord Hewart</a>, felt that he had not been properly consulted about the appointment.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hewart assigned Asquith a number of high-profile criminal trials at the <a href="/wiki/Old_Bailey" title="Old Bailey">Old Bailey</a>, where mistakes would adversely affect his reputation. However, as a judge, Asquith was especially successful in the trial of criminal cases, where his ability to explain the law to the jury was valuable, though he was occasionally criticised as being too lenient in his sentences.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>, Asquith provided advice to <a href="/wiki/George_VI" title="George VI">King George VI</a> on his power to refuse a <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_parliament" title="Dissolution of parliament">dissolution</a> in 1939.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1941, he presided over the trial <i><a href="/wiki/In_camera" title="In camera">in camera</a></i> of two German spies at the <a href="/wiki/Old_Bailey" title="Old Bailey">Old Bailey</a> and sentenced them to death under the <a href="/wiki/Treachery_Act_1940" title="Treachery Act 1940">Treachery Act</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also chaired a number of tribunals and commissions: he was the High Court judge attached to the General Claims Tribunal in 1939, chairman of the Advisory Committee on the internment of enemy aliens in 1940, chairman of the Commission on Higher Education in Colonies in 1943–44,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and chairman of the Royal Commission on Equal Pay in 1944–46. </p><p>After the war, following the death of <a href="/wiki/Frank_Douglas_MacKinnon" title="Frank Douglas MacKinnon">Lord Justice MacKinnon</a> in 1946, Asquith was appointed a <a href="/wiki/Lord_Justice_of_Appeal" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Justice of Appeal">Lord Justice of Appeal</a><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was sworn of the <a href="/wiki/Privy_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Privy Council">Privy Council</a>, on the recommendation of Lord Jowitt. On 23 April 1951, again on Jowitt's recommendation, Asquith was appointed a <a href="/wiki/Lord_of_Appeal_in_Ordinary" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord of Appeal in Ordinary">Lord of Appeal in Ordinary</a> and created a <a href="/wiki/Life_peer" title="Life peer">life peer</a> as <b>Baron Asquith of Bishopstone</b>, of <a href="/wiki/Bishopstone,_East_Sussex" title="Bishopstone, East Sussex">Bishopstone</a> in the County of Sussex.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1952 he was appointed to the <a href="/wiki/Law_Reform_Committee" title="Law Reform Committee">Law Reform Committee</a> and as chairman of the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 1951, Asquith was offered the <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chancellor" title="Lord Chancellor">Lord Chancellorship</a> by <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>. Lacking in political experience and in poor health, the offer came as a surprise to him. Although his family pleaded with him to accept the post, he declined it; to his son-in-law <a href="/wiki/John_Stephenson_(judge)" title="John Stephenson (judge)">John Stephenson</a> he wrote that Churchill "mustn't be saddled with a lame duck on the <a href="/wiki/Woolsack" title="Woolsack">Woolsack</a>". In selecting Asquith Churchill might have been influenced by the fact that Asquith's father had appointed him to his first Cabinet post, or by their shared membership of <a href="/wiki/The_Other_Club" title="The Other Club">The Other Club</a>, where they met frequently. (<a href="/wiki/Brendan_Bracken" title="Brendan Bracken">Brendan Bracken</a> told <a href="/wiki/Harold_Macmillan" title="Harold Macmillan">Harold Macmillan</a> that Churchill had "set his heart on getting Cys Asquith as Lord Chancellor, chiefly because he wished his last administration to hold both an Asquith and a <a href="/wiki/Gwilym_Lloyd_George" title="Gwilym Lloyd George">Lloyd George</a>.") Eventually, the post was given to <a href="/wiki/Gavin_Simonds,_1st_Viscount_Simonds" title="Gavin Simonds, 1st Viscount Simonds">Lord Simonds</a>, a law lord whom Churchill had never met.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Asquith remained on the bench until his sudden death at his London home on 24 August 1954. His funeral was held at Bishopstone Church, Sussex on 28 August. A memorial service, attended by Churchill, was held at <a href="/wiki/Temple_Church" title="Temple Church">Temple Church</a> on 5 October. </p><p>Asquith was the author of <i>Trade Union Law for Laymen</i> (1927), a Latin translation of poems from <i><a href="/wiki/A_Shropshire_Lad" title="A Shropshire Lad">A Shropshire Lad</a></i> (1929), and <i>Life of Herbert Henry Asquith</i> (1932), his father's authorised biography, which he co-authored with <a href="/wiki/J._A._Spender" title="J. A. Spender">J. A. Spender</a>. He also contributed many unsigned <a href="/wiki/Leading_article" class="mw-redirect" title="Leading article">leaders</a> and letters to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Assessment">Assessment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cyril_Asquith,_Baron_Asquith_of_Bishopstone&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Assessment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> Asquith's intellect was highly regarded by his contemporaries. However, assessments of his performance as a judge were more mixed, though it was said that "the higher he went the better he became".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_Simon,_1st_Viscount_Simon" title="John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon">Lord Chancellor Simon</a> reportedly thought that Asquith "possessed the most distinguished mind of any judge on the Bench".<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1946, recommending Asquith's promotion to the Court of Appeal, Simon's successor Lord Jowitt wrote to <a href="/wiki/Clement_Attlee" title="Clement Attlee">Clement Attlee</a> that:</p><blockquote><p>If he were to be appointed a member of the Court of Appeal, he would be one of a team, and under the tutelage of the <a href="/wiki/Wilfrid_Greene,_1st_Baron_Greene" title="Wilfrid Greene, 1st Baron Greene">Master of the Rolls</a> he might be made to do some work … I recognise that his promotion would be regarded by the Bench and Bar as a reward for singularly unmeritorious services. On the other hand, I still believe he has the best brain of any of the King's Bench judges … I should be thankful to get rid of him from the King's Bench Division, as would many, many of the senior judges.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p>Asquith was a conservative judge. Famously, in <i><a href="/wiki/Candler_v_Crane,_Christmas_%26_Co" title="Candler v Crane, Christmas & Co">Candler v. Crane, Christmas & Co.</a></i> (1951), in response to <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Denning,_Baron_Denning" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred Denning, Baron Denning">Lord Denning</a>'s critique in his dissent that "there were the timorous souls who were fearful of allowing a new cause of action", Asquith replied that "If this relegates me to the company of timorous souls, I must face that consequence with such fortitude as I can command".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As to his impact, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Stevens_(lawyer)" title="Robert Stevens (lawyer)">Robert Stevens</a> thought that "perhaps because of his nature and his natural conservatism, he had virtually no impact in the Lords … It was an undistinguished period in the House of Lords as a final court of appeal; Asquith did nothing to ameliorate it."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>However, his judgments, which combined his knowledge of the law and his literary interests, were said by Stevens to possess a certain distinction.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cyril_Asquith,_Baron_Asquith_of_Bishopstone&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At <a href="/wiki/St_Margaret%27s,_Westminster" title="St Margaret's, Westminster">St Margaret's, Westminster</a> on 12 February 1918, Asquith married Anne Stephanie Pollock (27 April 1896 – 1964), daughter of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Adrian_Donald_Wilde_Pollock&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Adrian Donald Wilde Pollock (page does not exist)">Sir Adrian Donald Wilde Pollock</a>, solicitor <a href="/wiki/Chamberlain_of_London" title="Chamberlain of London">Chamberlain of the City of London</a>. Through her father she was the great-granddaughter of the judge <a href="/wiki/Sir_Frederick_Pollock,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet">Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet</a>. They had two sons and two daughters.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His younger daughter, the Hon (Frances) Rose Asquith (1925–2020), married in 1951 <a href="/wiki/John_Stephenson_(judge)" title="John Stephenson (judge)">John Stephenson</a>, later a <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Appeal_judge_(England_and_Wales)" title="Court of Appeal judge (England and Wales)">Lord Justice of Appeal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Arms">Arms</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cyril_Asquith,_Baron_Asquith_of_Bishopstone&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Arms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="max-width: 100%"> <caption class="nowrap">Coat of arms of Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone </caption> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 220px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Asquith_of_Bishopstone_Achievement.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Asquith_of_Bishopstone_Achievement.png/250px-Asquith_of_Bishopstone_Achievement.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="394" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Asquith_of_Bishopstone_Achievement.png/375px-Asquith_of_Bishopstone_Achievement.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Asquith_of_Bishopstone_Achievement.png/500px-Asquith_of_Bishopstone_Achievement.png 2x" data-file-width="675" data-file-height="1065" /></a></span> </td> <td style="min-width:175px;"> <dl><dt>Crest</dt> <dd>Issuant out of Clouds proper a Mascle Gules</dd> <dt>Escutcheon</dt> <dd>Sable on a Fess between three Crosses Crosslet Argent a Portcullis of the field</dd> <dt>Motto</dt> <dd>Sine Macula Macla (Spotless)</dd></dl> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_judgments">Selected judgments</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cyril_Asquith,_Baron_Asquith_of_Bishopstone&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Selected judgments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Victoria_Laundry_(Windsor)_Ltd_v_Newman_Industries_Ltd" title="Victoria Laundry (Windsor) Ltd v Newman Industries Ltd">Victoria Laundry (Windsor) Ltd v Newman Industries Ltd</a></i> [1949] 2 KB 528 — <a href="/wiki/Remoteness_in_English_law" title="Remoteness in English law">remoteness</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Candler_v_Crane,_Christmas_%26_Co" title="Candler v Crane, Christmas & Co">Candler v Crane, Christmas & Co</a></i> [1951] 2 KB 164 — <a href="/wiki/Negligent_misstatement" class="mw-redirect" title="Negligent misstatement">negligent misstatement</a></li> <li><i>Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Ltd. v. Sheikh of Abu Dhabi</i> (1951) 18 ILR 144 — the <a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Abu_Dhabi" title="Emirate of Abu Dhabi">Abu Dhabi</a> Arbitration</li> <li><i>National Coal Board v England</i> [1954] AC 403 — <a href="/wiki/Illegality_in_English_law" title="Illegality in English law">illegality</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cyril_Asquith,_Baron_Asquith_of_Bishopstone&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-:0-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-12"><sup><i><b>m</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-13"><sup><i><b>n</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-14"><sup><i><b>o</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-15"><sup><i><b>p</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-16"><sup><i><b>q</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFStevens" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Stevens, Robert. 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"Lord Asquith Of Bishopstone". <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i>. p. 8.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Times&rft.atitle=Lord+Asquith+Of+Bishopstone&rft.pages=8&rft.date=1954-08-26&rft.au=Lord+Jowitt&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACyril+Asquith%2C+Baron+Asquith+of+Bishopstone" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Candler v Crane, Christmas & Co</i> [1951] 2 KB 164.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/asquith1951.htm">"Asquith of Bishopstone, Baron (UK, 1951 – 1954)"</a>. <i>Cracroft's Peerage</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Cracroft%27s+Peerage&rft.atitle=Asquith+of+Bishopstone%2C+Baron+%28UK%2C+1951+%E2%80%93+1954%29&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cracroftspeerage.co.uk%2Fasquith1951.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACyril+Asquith%2C+Baron+Asquith+of+Bishopstone" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cyril_Asquith,_Baron_Asquith_of_Bishopstone&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hansard" title="Hansard">Hansard</a></i> 1803–2005: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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title="1922 United Kingdom general election">1922</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1922_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1922 United Kingdom general election">1923</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1922_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1922 United Kingdom general election">1924</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Career</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Relugas_Compact" title="Relugas Compact">Relugas Compact</a> (1905)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Budget" title="People's Budget">People's Budget</a> (1909)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Downing_Street" title="Battle of Downing Street">Battle of Downing Street</a> (1910)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marconi_scandal" title="Marconi scandal">Marconi scandal</a> (1912)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Ireland_Act_1914" title="Government of Ireland Act 1914">Third Home 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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Margot_Asquith" title="Margot Asquith">Margot Asquith</a> (second wife)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raymond_Asquith" title="Raymond Asquith">Raymond Asquith</a> (son)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Asquith_(poet)" title="Herbert Asquith (poet)">Herbert Asquith</a> (son)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Asquith" title="Arthur Asquith">Arthur Asquith</a> (son)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Violet_Bonham_Carter" title="Violet Bonham Carter">Violet Bonham Carter</a> (daughter)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Cyril Asquith</a> (son)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Bibesco" title="Elizabeth Bibesco">Elizabeth Bibesco</a> (daughter)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Asquith" title="Anthony Asquith">Anthony Asquith</a> (son)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Bonham-Carter" title="Maurice Bonham-Carter">Maurice Bonham-Carter</a> (son-in-law)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lady_Cynthia_Asquith" title="Lady Cynthia Asquith">Cynthia Asquith</a> (daughter-in-law)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katharine_Asquith" title="Katharine Asquith">Katharine Asquith</a> (daughter-in-law)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Tennant,_1st_Baron_Glenconner" title="Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner">Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner</a> (brother-in-law)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Tennant" title="Harold Tennant">Harold Tennant</a> (brother-in-law)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Cultural depictions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Edward_the_Seventh" title="Edward the Seventh">Edward the Seventh</a></i> (TV, 1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Life_and_Times_of_David_Lloyd_George" title="The Life and Times of David Lloyd George">The Life and Times of David Lloyd George</a></i> (TV, 1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Number_10_(TV_series)" title="Number 10 (TV series)">Number 10</a></i> (TV, 1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lost_Prince" title="The Lost Prince">The Lost Prince</a></i> (TV, 2003)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rector_of_the_University_of_Glasgow" title="Rector of the University of Glasgow">Rector of the University of Glasgow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rector_of_the_University_of_Aberdeen" title="Rector of the University of Aberdeen">Rector of the University of Aberdeen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1916_Prime_Minister%27s_Resignation_Honours" title="1916 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours">1916 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1920_Paisley_by-election" title="1920 Paisley by-election">1920 Paisley by-election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1925_University_of_Oxford_Chancellor_election" title="1925 University of Oxford Chancellor 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