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* Powicke, F. M. ( 1947 ), King Henry III and the Lord Edward: The Community of the Realm in the Thirteenth Century, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Twelve-year-old Edward was now the 17th Earl of Oxford and Lord Great Chamberlain of England, and heir to an estate whose annual income, though assessed at approximately £ 2, 500, may have run as high as £ 3, 500.
The Earl of Oxford carrying the Sword of State before Elizabeth I in his official capacity as Lord Great Chamberlain.
Affectionately known as her " Boar " or her " Turk ," discord arose between them, and on 1 July, Oxford bolted to the continent without permission, travelling to Calais with Lord Edward Seymour, and then to Flanders, ' carrying a great sum of money with him '.
On January 1576 Oxford wrote to Lord Burghley from Siena about complaints that had reached him about his creditors ' demands, which included the Queen and his sister, and directing that more of his land be sold to pay them.
The work consists of four ‘ books ’, the first addressed to the Queen, the second to Leicester, the third to Lord Burghley, and the fourth to Oxford, Sir Christopher Hatton, and Leicester's nephew Philip Sidney, with whom he would famously quarrel.
Oxford openly quarrelled with Leicester about this time ; he was confined to his chamber at Greenwich for some time ' about the libelling between him and my Lord of Leicester '.
Oxford later insisted that ' the Howards were the most treacherous race under heaven ' and that ' my Lord Howard the worst villain that lived in this earth.
Another of Oxford's men was slain that month, and in March Burghley wrote to Sir Christopher Hatton about the death of one of Knyvet's men, thanking Hatton for his efforts " to bring some good end to these troublesome matters betwixt my Lord and Oxford and Mr Thomas Knyvet ".
Between 1591 and 1592 Oxford disposed of the last of his large estates ; Castle Hedingham, the seat of his earldom, went to Lord Burghley, it was held in trust for Oxford's three daughters by his first marriage.
From March to August 1595 Oxford actively importuned the Queen, in competition with Lord Buckhurst, to farm the tin mines in Cornwall.
Two months later Rowland Whyte wrote to Sir Robert Sidney that ' Some say my Lord of Oxford is dead '.
Lincoln reported that after dinner Oxford spoke of the Queen's impending death, claiming that the peers of England should decide the succession, and suggested that since Lincoln had ' a nephew of the blood royal ... Lord Hastings ', he should be sent to France to find allies to support this aim.
On 18 June 1604 Oxford granted the custody of the Forest of Essex to his son-in-law, Lord Norris, and his cousin, Sir Francis Vere.
As noted, twelve years before his death Oxford sold his interest in Castle Hedingham to Lord Burghley, in trust for his three daughters by his first marriage.
*" Jewish Light on the Risen Lord ", New Oxford Review, by Frederick W. Marks
In 1666, he met Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, who had come to Oxford seeking treatment for a liver infection.
In 1177, at the Council of Oxford, Henry dismissed William FitzAldelm as the Lord of Ireland and replaced him with the ten-year-old John.
According to the novels, Lord Peter was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class degree in history.
* Lord Peter Wimsey portrait at Balliol, Oxford
* At 12, Oxford was made a royal ward and placed in the household of Lord Burghley, who was the Lord High Treasurer and Queen Elizabeth I's closest and most trusted advisor.
* One of Hamlet ’ s chief opponents at court was Laertes, the son of Polonius, while Oxford continually sought the help of Robert Cecil, the son of Lord Burghley, to seek the queen's favour, with no results.
In 1775 Lord North, who was Chancellor of the University of Oxford, succeeded in passing a bill that reiterated the legal deposit provisions and granted the universities perpetual copyright on their works.
* Pais, Abraham, Subtle is the Lord ...: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein ( OUP, Oxford, 1982 ).

Lord and Asquith
The King was displeased at Liberal attacks on the peers, including Lloyd George's Limehouse speech and Churchill's public demand for a general election ( for which Asquith apologised to the King's adviser Lord Knollys and rebuked Churchill at a Cabinet meeting ).
At the outset of World War I, the Prime Minister, Asquith, quickly had Lord Kitchener appointed Secretary of State for War ; Asquith had been filling the job himself as a stopgap following the resignation of Colonel Seeley over the Curragh Incident earlier in 1914, and Kitchener was by chance briefly in Britain on leave when war was declared.
He was known as H. H. Asquith until his elevation to the peerage ( 1925 ), when he became Lord Oxford.
It was at Lincoln's Inn that in 1882 Asquith met Richard Haldane, whom he would appoint as Lord Chancellor in 1912.
Asquith had to apologise to the King ’ s adviser Lord Knollys for a Churchill speech calling for a Dissolution and rebuked Churchill at the Cabinet Meeting ( 21 July 1909 ) telling him to keep out of “ matters of high policy ” ( no election was due until 1913, and the Monarch ’ s permission was needed to dissolve Parliament prematurely ).
At first the dominant figures in the management of the war were Winston Churchill ( First Lord of the Admiralty ) and Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener, who had taken over the War Office from Asquith himself.
In 1918 Asquith declined an offer of the job of Lord Chancellor, as this would have meant retiring from active politics in the House of Commons.
His fourth son Sir Cyril, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone ( 1890 – 1954 ) became a Law Lord.
* Spender, J. A., and Cyril Asquith, Life of Lord Oxford and Asquith ( 2 vols ) ( Hutchinson, 1932 ) * Taylor, A. J. P. English History, 1914 – 1945.
* Lord Oxford and Asquith, Memories and Recollections ( 2 vols ) ( Cassell, 1928 )
FitzAlan was elected Member of Parliament for Chichester in 1894, a seat he held until 1921, and served briefly under Arthur Balfour as a Lord of the Treasury in 1905 and under H. H. Asquith and later David Lloyd George as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from 1915 to 1921 ( jointly from December 1916 onwards ).
Future Liberal Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, described him as one of the three or four greatest men of the 19th century, while Lord Haldane described him as the strongest man the British House of Commons had seen in 150 years.
" He led the way for the longest period of successful radical government ever, which was continued by Herbert Asquith and David Lloyd George ," Lord Steel said.
He was, in 1916, appointed as governor general by King George V, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom H. H. Asquith, to replace Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, as viceroy, and occupied that post until succeeded by the Lord Byng of Vimy in 1921.
With the outbreak of the First World War, however, Cavendish ceased activities related to all but his honorific appointments and, between 1915 and 1916, sat as the Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty in the Cabinet of H. H. Asquith.
Following the outbreak of the First World War, Lord Bryce was commissioned by Prime Minister H. H. Asquith to give the official Bryce Report on alleged German atrocities in Belgium.
I also said it would be a great advantage if the remainder of Syria were annexed by France, as it would be far better for the state to have a European power as neighbour than the Turk " The same evening, Prime Minister H. H. Asquith announced that the dismemberment of the Turkish Empire had become a war aim in a speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet.
The government of Herbert Asquith attempted to resolve this during the First World War by appointing Lord Kitchener as Secretary for War, making him the first and only soldier to hold the post.
Subsequently, Churchill was asked by Prime Minister Asquith to become First Lord of the Admiralty, which he accepted.
He served under H. H. Asquith as a Lord of the Treasury ( government whip ) between 1910 and 1915.
Haldane was an ally of Herbert Henry Asquith and Sir Edward Grey-on the Liberal Imperialist wing of the party, followers of Lord Rosebery rather than of Sir William Harcourt.

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