Family
Lord Oxford married Anne Mary Celestine Palairet (14 November 1916 Paris – 19 August 1998 at Frome, Somerset), daughter of Sir Michael Palairet KCMG (1882–1956) by his wife Mary de Vere Studd, on 28 August 1947 at the Brompton Oratory. Anne Oxford was also a Roman Catholic via her parents' conversions. The Countess of Oxford and Asquith died in 1998, leaving five children: two sons, both diplomats, and three daughters (the middle married to another diplomat).
Lord Oxford inherited the Mells Estate from his mother Katherine Asquith, younger daughter of Sir John Horner of Mells and his wife Frances Graham.
Lord Oxford died, aged 94, on 16 January 2011. The peerage, which he had held for over eighty years, passed to his elder son, Raymond (b. 1952), a former British diplomat. His younger son the Honourable Dominic Asquith is British Ambassador to Egypt as of 2007, and a former British Ambassador to Iraq.
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