Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith (1864-1945), Society hostess; wife of 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith; daughter of Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Bt
Sitter in 50 portraits
Wife of the Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith; leader of taste and fashion, member of the intellectual group, the Souls and acquainted with the leading thinkers and politicians of the day; remembered chiefly for her outspoken bon mots.
Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888
by Henry Jamyn Brooks
oil on canvas, 1889
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1833
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by John Singer Sargent
chalk, 1897
NPG 4155
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Baron Adolph de Meyer
vintage bromide print, circa 1911
NPG P166
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Baron Adolph de Meyer
vintage bromide print, circa 1911
NPG P165
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Lucia Moholy
bromide print, 1935
NPG P128
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Elliott & Fry
vintage print
NPG x90783
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1897
NPG x18797
Margaret ('Margot') Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, July 1897
NPG x18798
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1897
NPG x18800
by Alexander Bassano, photogravure by Walker & Boutall
photogravure, 1897
NPG Ax41108
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1897
NPG x18799
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Howard Instead
matte bromide print, 1920s
NPG Ax24999
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
NPG Ax141458
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
NPG Ax142198
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
NPG Ax142199
'The Wharf' (Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
NPG Ax142200
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
NPG Ax142201
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1927
NPG x14176
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print, 1927
NPG x40317
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print, 1927
NPG x40318
1st Earl and Countess of Oxford and Asquith with Anthony Asquith
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1928
NPG x30417
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Hugh Cecil (Hugh Cecil Saunders)
glass negative, circa 1930
NPG x27885
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Hugh Cecil (Hugh Cecil Saunders)
glass negative, circa 1930
NPG x27886
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Hugh Cecil (Hugh Cecil Saunders)
glass negative, circa 1930
NPG x27887
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Claude Harris
bromide print, 1930s
NPG x35105
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
vintage print, circa 1930s
NPG x184082
by Marcus Adams
bromide print, 9 December 1932
NPG x35106
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Emil Otto ('E.O.') Hoppé
bromide print, 1935
NPG x136023
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Howard Coster
print, 1937
NPG x24042
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x24266
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x24267
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x24268
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x24269
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x24270
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x24271
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x24272
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x24273
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x24274
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x24275
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x24276
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x24277
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x24279
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x24280
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Elliott & Fry
vintage print, 1939
NPG x90782
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Elliott & Fry
vintage print
NPG x184130
Suggestion for an All National History Charity Tableau
by Anthony Wysard
watercolour, 1931
NPG D308
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Lucia Moholy
vintage chlorobromide print, 1935
NPG x76368
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x24278
Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass copy negative, 1939
NPG x92208
Key to Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888
after Henry Jamyn Brooks
photograph, 1919 or after
NPG D42236
Asquith
Related People
Anthony Asquith (son)
Elizabeth (née Asquith), Princess Bibesco (daughter)
Ralouka ('Rachel') Bibesco-Bassaraba (née Musurus), Princess de Brancovan (granddaughter)
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (husband)
Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Bt (father)
Category
Politics, Government and Diplomacy
Groups
The Souls
Place
Oxfordshire















































