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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.

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Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x24279

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Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x24280

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Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith

by Elliott & Fry
vintage print, 1939
NPG x90782

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Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith

by Elliott & Fry
vintage print
NPG x184130

D308

Suggestion for an All National History Charity Tableau

by Anthony Wysard
watercolour, 1931
NPG D308

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Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith

by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
vintage print, circa 1930s
NPG x184082

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Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith

by Lucia Moholy
vintage chlorobromide print, 1935
NPG x76368

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Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x24278

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Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith

by Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass copy negative, 1939
NPG x92208

D42236

Key to Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888

after Henry Jamyn Brooks
photograph, 1919 or after
NPG D42236

Family Tree
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