Everything about Cyril Asquith Baron Asquith Of Bishopstone totally explained
Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone (
5 February 1890 –
24 August 1954) was an
English barrister,
judge and
law lord.
Cyril Asquith was the fourth son of
H. H. Asquith, later
Prime Minister and subsequently
Earl of Oxford and Asquith, from his first marriage, to Helen Kelsall Melland.
He was educated at
Winchester College and
Balliol College, Oxford.
During the First World War he served in the 16th Battalion,
London Regiment, gaining the rank of
Captain.
He was called to the Bar at the
Inner Temple in 1920. He
took silk in 1936 and was appointed
Bencher in 1939.
He was a Justice of the
King's Bench 1938-46 and as such was appointed
Knight Bachelor. He was a
Lord Justice of Appeal 1946-51 and as such was sworn of the
Privy Council.
In 1951 he was made a
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and received, as a
law lord, automatically a
life peerage as
Baron Asquith of Bishopstone, in the County of
Sussex. He held office until his death in 1954.
He married Anne Stephanie Pollock (1896-1964), daughter of
Sir Adrian Donald Wilde Pollock
, of the
Pollock Baronets, on 12 February 1918. They had four children: Luke, Jane, Frances Rose, and Paul.
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