Background and Education
Asquith was the only son of Raymond Asquith, a barrister, by his wife the former Katherine Horner. He was the grandson of H. H. Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, British Prime Minister from 1908 until 1916. Lord Oxford's two older sisters both predeceased him; the younger of these was Lady Perdita Rose Mary Asquith, later Lady Hylton (1910–1996), who was married to William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton.
He inherited the earldom in 1928 on the death of his grandfather, as his father (the eldest son) had been killed in the First World War. He was raised as a Roman Catholic (his mother had converted to Roman Catholicism in 1923) and was educated at St Ronan's School and Ampleforth College. He then became a scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, where he received an M.A. In 1941 Asquith served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers and Assistant DC Palestine (1942–48).
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