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1 Sir John awaits his biographer. In the meantime see Ruth Evans, John Williams, 1840-1926 (Cardiff, 1952), and the Dictionary of Welsh Biography (London, 1959), 1055-56. 2 Daphne Bennett, Margot: a Life of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith (London, 1984), 137. 3 Ibid., 154. 4 Ibid., 165. 5 Ibid., 166. 6 Ibid., 174. 7 Violet Bonham-Carter (1887-1969), Asquith's daughter by his first marriage to Helen Melland (1856-91). She had married in July 1915 Maurice Bonham-Carter ('Bongie') (1880- 1960), her father's Principal Private Secretary. 8 Elizabeth Asquith (1897-1945), who had married Prince Antoine Bibesco. 9 Anthony Asquith ('Puffin') (1902-68), film director. 10 See Kenneth O. Morgan, 'Cardiganshire Politics: the Liberal Ascendancy, 1885-1923', Ceredigion (1964-67), 332-35. 11 Ibid., 334. 12 Ibid. 13 Idem., Consensus and Disunity: the Lloyd George Coalition Government, 1918-1922 (Oxford, 1979), 195-99. 14 NLW MS. 22,823C, ff. 74-75, D. Lloyd George to Dame Margaret Lloyd-George, 9 February 1921. 15 Bennett, op. cit., 201-02. 16 Quoted in Stephen Koss, Asquith (London, 1976), 117. 17 Bennett, op. cit. 18 Quoted ibid., 272. 19 Koss, op. cit., 212. 20 Ibid., 259. 21 C. P. Scott diary, 9 August 1921, quoted in Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Labour, 1920-1924 (Cambridge, 1971), 100. 22 Ibid. 23 See Frances Donaldson, The Marconi Scandal (London, 1962). 24 Roy Jenkins, Asquith, 2nd ed. (London, 1978), 255. 25 Margot Asquith, Autobiography (London, 1920). 26 See Bennett, op. cit., 318-23. 27 Ibid., 320. 28 Mark Bonham Carter (ed.), The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (Bath, 1962), xxvii-iii. 29 Bennett, op. cit., 316. 30 Mary Countess of Wemyss (d. 1937). Daughter of Hon. P. S. Wyndham. Became Lady Elcho by marriage to the future eleventh Earl of Wemyss in 1883 and Countess of Wemyss on her husband's succession to the earldom in 1914. Famous hostess. 31 Benjamin Jowett (1817-93). Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, 1855. Master of Balliol College, 1870-93. 32 Trevor Wilson, The Downfall of the Liberal Party, 1914-1935 (London, 1968), 285. 33 Quoted in Jenkins, op. cit., 500. 34 Kenneth Rose, King George V (London, 1983), 325. 35 Quoted in Jenkins, op. cit., 505. 36 H.H.A. Letters of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith to a Friend. Second Series, 1922-1927. (London, 1934), 108. The letter is dated 5th November 1924. 37 Koss, op. cit., 269. 38 Ibid.