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In 1912, Asquith fell in love with Venetia Stanley, and his romantic obsession with her continued into 1915, when she married Edwin Montagu, a Liberal Cabinet Minister ; a volume of Asquith's letters to Venetia, often written during Cabinet meetings and describing political business in some detail, has been published ; but it is not known whether or not their relationship was sexually consummated.
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1912 and Asquith
As a result Asquith was forced to introduce a new third Home Rule bill in 1912.
The Third Home Rule Bill was introduced by British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith in 1912.
It was at Lincoln's Inn that in 1882 Asquith met Richard Haldane, whom he would appoint as Lord Chancellor in 1912.
Asquith was a hate figure amongst the suffragettes, the windows of 10 Downing Street had been smashed in 1908 and in 1912 in Dublin his carriage was attacked by Mary Leigh.
The price of Irish support in 1910 was the Third Irish Home Rule Bill, which Asquith delivered in legislation in 1912.
Redmond used his leverage to persuade the Liberal government of H. H. Asquith to introduced the Third Home Rule Bill in April 1912, to grant Ireland national self-government.
Law did not particularly enjoy his tougher manner, and at the State Opening of Parliament in February 1912 apologised directly to Asquith for his coming speech, saying " I am afraid I shall have to show myself very vicious, Mr Asquith, this session.
In July 1912 Asquith travelled to Dublin ( the first Prime Minister to do so in over a century ) to make a speech, ridiculing Unionist demands for a referendum on the issue via an election and calling their campaign " purely destructive in its objects, anarchic and chaotic in its methods ".
On 11 April 1912, the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, introduced the Third Home Rule Bill which allowed for more autonomy than its two predecessors had.
In early 1912, the Liberal coalition British government of H. H. Asquith had introduced the Third Home Rule Bill for Ireland, which proposed the creation of an autonomous Irish Parliament in Dublin.
In 1912 the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith chose The Wharf ( which he built in 1913 ) and the adjoining Walton House for his country residence.
After the passing, with the support of the Irish Parliamentary Party, of the Parliament Act 1911, which restricted the power of the Lords to veto bills, Prime Minister H. H. Asquith introduced the Third Home Rule Bill on 16 April 1912.
In 1912, with the Irish Parliamentary Party at its zenith, a new third Home Rule Bill was introduced by Herbert Asquith, passing its first reading in the Imperial House of Commons but again defeated in the House of Lords ( as with the bill of 1893 ).
Ennobled as Viscount Althorp in 1905, he was Lord Chamberlain from 1905 to 1912 in the Liberal administrations headed by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith.
This was an attempt to co-ordinate the paramilitary activities of Ulster ’ s unionists, as well as to give real military backing to the threats of the Ulster Covenant in resisting the implementation of the Third Home Rule Bill introduced on 11 April 1912 by then Prime Minister H. H. Asquith.
Tennant remained in this office until 1911, and then served under Asquith as Financial Secretary to the War Office from 1911 to 1912 and as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1912 to 1916.
He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies under Herbert Henry Asquith between 1908 and 1911, as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1911 to 1912, and became a member of the Privy Council in 1909.
He did return to ministerial office in 1912 when Asquith appointed him Lord Chamberlain of the Household ( succeeding his brother-in-law Lord Spencer ).
He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury ( Chief Government Whip ) under H. H. Asquith between 1910 and 1912, when he was forced to resign after being implicated in the Marconi scandal.
When, in 1910, the Irish Party again held the balance of power in the Commons, Herbert Asquith introduced a Third Home Rule Bill in 1912.
In July 1909 he was appointed Comptroller of the Household in the Liberal administration of H. H. Asquith, a post he held until 1912.
1912 and fell
Through 1911 and 1912, as the Cubist facet-plane's tendency to adhere to the literal surface became harder and harder to deny, the task of keeping the surface at arm's length fell all the more to eye-undeceiving contrivances.
In mid-December 1915, Dr. Alzheimer fell ill on the train on his way to the University of Breslau, where he had been appointed professor of psychiatry in 1912.
Following Italy's victory in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911 – 1912 the Young Turks fell from power after a coup.
More broadly speaking, Chinese classic texts may refer to texts, be they written in vernacular Chinese or in classical Chinese, that existed before 1912, when the last imperial Chinese dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, fell.
There was discussion to do the same in Tibet, Kokonor, Inner Mongolia, and Outer Mongolia, but these proposals were not put to practice, and these areas were outside the province system of China proper when the Qing Dynasty fell in 1912.
The number of eunuchs in Imperial employ fell to 470 by 1912, when the practice of using them ceased.
After the appearance of a smoke trail in the sky on July 19, 1912, a meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kilograms exploded over the town of Holbrook, and a shower of stones fell from the sky, estimated to number more than 16, 000 and varying in weight from 6. 6 kilograms to less than 0. 1 grams.
The State Bank of Winnebago was established in its new building on the site of the Edson Hotel in 1912, it was succeeded by the People ’ s State Bank in the late 1920s, and that bank fell under in 1932-33.
In May 1912, Michael went to Copenhagen for the funeral of his uncle King Frederick VIII of Denmark, where he fell ill with a stomach ulcer that was to trouble him for years afterwards.
Part of the brick tower of Scopwick Tower Mill, which was built in 1827 and fell into disuse around 1912, remains standing.
The facility, completed in 1912, fell into disuse but was saved from demolition by the appeals of enthusiasts to East Devon District Council.
NEC Sales fell sixty percent between 1912 and 1915.
These plans fell through when Charles Hays perished April 15, 1912 on the RMS Titanic.
The company continued to focus on high-priced watch models and eventually fell into receivership, discontinuing business in July 1912.
These badges continued to be used through the remainder of the Ming and the subsequent Qing Dynasty until the imperial system fell in 1912.
Adam fell over in 1911 and was re-erected ( incorrectly ) by Maud Cunnington in 1912.
Not long after, the two-stroke engine fell out of favor in the marketplace, and Knox added a Knight sleeve-valved engine in 1912.
After the Qing Dynasty fell and the Republic of China was established in 1912 under Sun Yat-sen, Kang remained an advocate of constitutional monarchy and with this aim launched a failed coup d ' état in 1917.
The Piedra Movediza fell down in 1912 and split in two below.
Born in 1912 in New Orleans, Morrison fell into show business because a child actor being used for a film could not be persuaded to do anything but howl.
It fell into private hands, including, in the 1850s, those of Henry Huth, and eventually re-surfaced at auction in 1912, where it was bought and returned to St. Helen's.
Duart fell into ruins but was restored early in the 20th century by Sir Fitzroy Donald MacLean and has been the seat of the clan chief since its reopening in 1912.
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