Mark Julian Asquith

The Honourable Mark Julian Asquith (b. 13 May 1979, Frome, Somerset) [Darryl Lundy. [http://www.thepeerage.com/p14976.htm "Mark Julian Asquith"] "The Peerage" database. Last edited 25 May 2006. Retrieved 25 May 2008.] is the son and heir of Raymond Asquith, Viscount Asquith, and the grandson of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith. He is second heir apparent [This means that he is the heir apparent of the heir apparent to the earldom, and no person subsequently born can deprive him from succeeding to the earldom if he outlives his grandfather and father.] to the earldom of Oxford and Asquith, created 1925 for H.H. Asquith, a British Liberal Prime Minister. He attended Ampleforth College and then St Andrew's University. He is now an investment banker.

In May 2008, he married Helen Prentice, a trainee doctor and one of the two daughters of Christopher Prentice, the new British Ambassador to Iraq. The wedding, at Mells in Somerset, was attended by his 92-year-old paternal grandfather Lord Asquith and by his uncle Dominic Asquith, who was Prentice's predecessor as Ambassador to Iraq. [Richard Kay. "Busman's holiday" in column [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1020611/Richard-Kay-New-signing-Romans-art-empire.html "New signing for Roman's art empire"] "Daily Mail", 20 May 2008. Retrieved 25 May 2008]

Ancestry

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1= 1. Honourable Mark Julian Asquith (b. 13 May 1979)
2= 2. Raymond Asquith, Viscount Asquith (b. 24 August 1952)
3= 3. (Mary) Clare Pollen (b. 2 June 1951) [Also see [http://www.thepeerage.com/p14968.htm#i149674 Mary Clare Pollen] ]
4= 4. Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith (b. 22 April 1916)
5= 5. Anne Mary Celestine Palairet (14 November 1916 Paris - 19 August 1998 Frome, Somerset)
6= 6. Francis Anthony Baring Pollen (1926-1987)
7= 7. (Marie-)Therese Sheridan
(md 2ndly 1993 7th Viscount Sidmouth) [ [http://www.thepeerage.com/p8567.htm#i85666 John Tonge Anthony Pellew Addington, 7th Viscount Sidmouth] (3 October 1914 - 30 January 2005, aged 90] ]
8= 8. Raymond Asquith (6 November 1878 – 15 September 1916)
9= 9. Katharine Frances Horner (1885-1976)
10= 10. Sir (Charles) Michael Palairet KCMG (29 September 1882 - 5 August 1956) [Darryl Lundy. [http://www.thepeerage.com/p2377.htm#i23762 Michael Palairet] "The Peerage" database. Retrieved 26 May 2008]
11= 11. Mary de Vere Studd (14 March 1895-2 February 1977) [Darryl Lundy. [http://www.thepeerage.com/p1748.htm#i17473 Mary de Vere Studd] "The Peerage" database. Retrieved 26 May 2008]
12= 12. Arthur Joseph Lawrence Pollen (1899-1968)
13= 13. Hon. Daphne Baring (1904-1986)
14= 14. Sir Joseph Sheridan, or His Honour Sir Joseph Alfred Sheridan (b. 1882)
15= 15.
16= 16. H. H. Asquith (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928)
17= 17. Helen Kelsall Melland (d. 1891)
18= 18. Sir John Francis Fortescue Horner, of Mells, Somerset
19= 19. Frances Jane Graham
20= 20. Captain Charles Harvey Palairet, sometime 9th Lancers, of West Hill, Ledbury (d. 27 February 1905) [He was the younger son of Captain Henry Septimus Palairet by his wife Mary Ann Hamilton. For his death date, see [http://www.genealogieonline.nl/genealogie_manuel/I3749.php Holland-Martin genealogy] . For his further ancestry, see [http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/pdfs/stern_p079.pdf Franks-Hamilton table] . His second cousin once removed was Constance Mary Becket, Lady Aberdare.]
21= 21. Emily Henry [His mother is unlikely to be Nora Hamilton Martin. Charles Harvey Palairet's wife is given as Emily Henry in [http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/aja/FAJF/results.php?pg=79 another source] . Nora Hamilton Martin married Palairet only [http://www.genealogieonline.nl/genealogie_manuel/I3749.php on 4 February 1888] , so Michael Palairet is probably the son of the first wife.]
22= 22.
23= 23.
24= 24.
25= 25.
26= 26. Cecil Baring, 3rd Baron Revelstoke of Membland [The 3rd Baron Revelstoke's sister was Hon. Margaret Baring, wife of the 6th Earl Spencer. This makes his daughter Hon. Daphne Pollen (1904-1986) a first cousin of the 7th Earl; his grandson Francis Pollen (1926-1987) a second cousin of the 8th Earl; and his great-granddaughter Mary Clare, Viscountess Asquith a third cousin of Diana, Princess of Wales. Mark Julian Asquith is thus a fourth cousin of Princes William and Harry.]
27= 27. [http://www.thepeerage.com/p1194.htm#i11940 Maude Louise Tailler, nee Lorillard] (1876-1922)
28= 28. Joseph Sheridan of [http://www.4salebyowner.ie/history.html Spencer Park] , Castlebar, co. Mayo, Ireland [Information about this man and his son Sir Joseph Sheridan comes from [http://www.castlebar.ie/roots/rootsmayjune2000.html this site] . A possible relative was the soprano Margaret Burke Sheridan (1889-1958), described as the youngest of five children of a postmaster and a housewife who both died in 1983 when she was four. For more on the latter, see [http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/maggie-knew-how--to-sing-a-story-1325447.html this news article] ]
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