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5 giu 2015 · When Viscount Raymond Asquith, an SIS officer, drove across the Finland-Soviet border in 1985 with serving KGB officer Gordievsky shivering in his boot, it was one of SIS’s greatest coups.
Raymond Asquith. Asquith followed this by agreeing to hold Commissions of Inquiry into the conduct of the Dardanelles and of the Mesopotamian campaign, where Allied forces had been forced to surrender at Kut. Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to the War Committee, considered that, "the Coalition never recovered.
8 mag 2024 · Raymond Asquith, now 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, was the MI6 officer behind the wheel. “I wasn’t excited. I was bloody frightened, actually,” he said.
Raymond Asquith, born on 6 Nov 1878, was the elder son of British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith but a brilliant intellectual and barrister. He was a member of the Edwardian Coterie and graduated with first class honours from Balliol. He was a junior Counsel on the North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration investigating the sinking of the Titanic.
In 1907 Raymond married Katherine Horner (1885–1976). This was a socially acceptable match, as her family was landed and wealthy. They would have three children, Helen (1908–2000), Perdita (1910–1996), who became Lady Hylton, and Julian (1916–2011), who in 1928 succeeded to the peerage granted to his grandfather in 1925 as Earl of Oxford and Asquith.
24 ott 2014 · The Earl of Oxford and Asquith's full title is The Earl of Oxford and Asquith OBE. His name is Raymond Benedict Bartholomew Michael Asquith, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
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