God was surely looking after England or she would have perished years agone.

In his old age he ceaselessly quoted the lines of William Watson: "Time, and the Ocean, and some fostering star In high cabal have made us what we are"; and damned the politician with all the vigour of the Old Testament vernacular.
I have often listened to a minister's confidential gossip about Lord Fisher; nothing in these interesting confidences struck me so much as the self-satisfaction of the little minister in treating the man of destiny as an amusing lunatic.
MR.

ASQUITH THE RT.HON.HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH Born at Morley, Yorkshire, 1852.

Educ.: City of London School; Balliol College, Oxford; gained 1st class, Lit.Hum.

1874; Barrister Lincoln's Inn, 1876; Q.C.1890; Home Sec'y, 1892-95; Ecclesiastical Commissioner, 1892-95; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1905-8; Sec'y for War, 1914; 1st Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister, 1908-16; LL.D.Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cambridge, Leeds, St.
Andrews, and Bristol.
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