Herbert Asquith

John Maynard Keynes

Chapter Chapter 5 in Essays in Biography, 2010, pp 37-40 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Those who only knew Lord Oxford in his later life must find it hard to credit either the appearance or the reputation which are reported to have been his thirty or more years ago. The ability and the reticence were there to be recognised, but the somewhat tight features, the alleged coldness of the aspiring lawyer from Balliol, were entirely transformed in the noble Roman of the war and post-war years, who looked the part of Prime Minister as no one has since Mr Gladstone. His massive countenance and aspect of venerable strength were, in these later days, easily perceived to mask neither coldness nor egoism, but to clothe with an appropriate form a warm and tender heart easily touched to emotion, and a personal reserve which did not ask or claim anything for himself.

Keywords: Prime Minister; Personal Issue; Political Controversy; Accurate Memory; Political Sense (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-59074-2_5

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