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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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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

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

by John Singer Sargent
chalk, 1897
NPG 4155

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

by Baron Adolph de Meyer
vintage bromide print, circa 1911
NPG P166

P165

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

by Baron Adolph de Meyer
vintage bromide print, circa 1911
NPG P165

P128

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

by Lucia Moholy
bromide print, 1935
NPG P128

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

by Elliott & Fry
vintage print
NPG x90783

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Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith as an Oriental Snake Charmer

by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1897
NPG x18797

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Margaret ('Margot') Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith

by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, July 1897
NPG x18798

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Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith as an Oriental Snake Charmer

by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1897
NPG x18800

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Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith as an Oriental Snake Charmer

by Alexander Bassano, photogravure by Walker & Boutall
photogravure, 1897
NPG Ax41108

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Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith as an Oriental Snake Charmer

by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1897
NPG x18799

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

by Howard Instead
matte bromide print, 1920s
NPG Ax24999

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

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
NPG Ax141458

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'The Wharf'

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
NPG Ax142198

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'The Wharf'

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
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'The Wharf' (Margaret Emma Alice ('Margot') Asquith (née Tennant), Countess of Oxford and Asquith)

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
NPG Ax142200

Ax142201

'The Wharf'

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
NPG Ax142201

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

by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1927
NPG x14176

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

by Cecil Beaton
bromide print, 1927
NPG x40317

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

by Cecil Beaton
bromide print, 1927
NPG x40318

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