Julian Edward George Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith KCMG, is the grandson of H. H. Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, British Prime Minister from 1908 until 1916. He was the only son of Raymond Asquith, a brilliant barrister, by his wife the former Katherine Horner. Lord Oxford's two older sisters have both predeceased him; the younger of these was Lady Perdita Rose Mary Asquith, later Lady Hylton (1910-1996),, who was married to William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton.

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  • Julian Edward George Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith KCMG, is the grandson of H. H. Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, British Prime Minister from 1908 until 1916. He was the only son of Raymond Asquith, a brilliant barrister, by his wife the former Katherine Horner. Lord Oxford's two older sisters have both predeceased him; the younger of these was Lady Perdita Rose Mary Asquith, later Lady Hylton (1910-1996),, who was married to William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton. He inherited the Earldom on the death of his grandfather, as his father (the eldest son) had died during the First World War. He was raised Roman Catholic (his mother, the former Katharine Horner, had converted to Roman Catholicism in 1923) and was educated first at St. Ronan's School, followed by the premier Roman Catholic school in Great Britain, the Benedictine Abbey at Ampleforth. He then became a scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, where he received an M.A. In 1941 Asquith served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers and Assistant DC Palestine (1942-48). He was Deputy Chairman Secretary of the British Administration Tripolitania from 1949 to 1950, Director of Interior Tripolitania in 1951 and Advisor to the Prime Minister of Libya in 1952. In 1955 he was Administrative Secretary of Zanzibar and from 1958-62 was the Administrator of Saint Lucia. He became a Companion of Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1961. Oxford was the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Seychelles from 1962 to 1967 and the Commander of the British Indian Ocean Territory from 1965 to 1967. In 1964 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. He also held the posts of Constitutional Commander of the Cayman Islands in 1971, and Turks and Caicos Islands from 1973-74.
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  • Julian Edward George Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith KCMG, is the grandson of H. H. Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, British Prime Minister from 1908 until 1916. He was the only son of Raymond Asquith, a brilliant barrister, by his wife the former Katherine Horner. Lord Oxford's two older sisters have both predeceased him; the younger of these was Lady Perdita Rose Mary Asquith, later Lady Hylton (1910-1996),, who was married to William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton.
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  • Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith
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