Raymond Asquith: Family, Politics, And Passion

Asquith’s eldest son raymond had been one of the most brilliant oxford scholars of his generation. Among the ‘lost generation’ of the first world war, few shine as bright as raymond asquith, the prime minister’s eldest son. The eldest son of the prime minister, with an outstanding academic record at oxford, raymond asquith devoted his great talents to friendship, preferring conversation and literature to the. Raymond asquith came up to balliol college as a scholar in 1897 and held an all souls fellowship from 1903 to 1910. His father, who had also been a balliol scholar, became prime minister in.