Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone

English barrister, judge

Date of Birth: 05-Feb-1890

Place of Birth: Hampstead, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 24-Aug-1954

Profession: judge, barrister

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone, PC (5 February 1890 – 24 August 1954) was an English barrister and judge who served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1951 until his death three years later. The youngest child of British prime minister H.
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Asquith by his first wife, Cyril Asquith followed the steps of his father and eldest brother into a distinguished academic career at Balliol College, Oxford, before serving in the British Army during the First World War.
After the war he practiced, with modest success, at the common law bar until 1938, when he was appointed to the High Court.
He was promoted to the Court of Appeal in 1946 and to the House of Lords in 1951.
The same year he was offered the Lord Chancellorship by Winston Churchill, but declined the post. Asquith was widely regarded as possessing one of the finest minds on the bench, although his rapid rise, after an unremarkable career at the bar, was the cause for some adverse comment.
According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, his career was an "undistinguished—although extraordinarily lucky" one.