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12 de may. de 2024 · BBC News. 12 May 2024. A pocket watch once gifted to Sir Winston Churchill by Herbert Henry Asquith in 1905 is to be sold at auction. The 18-carat gold pocket watch is engraved with the...
Hace 2 días · Winston Churchill. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of ...
7 de may. de 2024 · Herbert Asquith was the son of a northern clothing manufacturer. He was educated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was an academic star and became president of the Union. Like a number of contemporary fellow students he came under the influence of ...
12 de may. de 2024 · The timepiece holds historical significance as it was given to Britain’s most famous prime minister by Herbert Henry Asquith, who would later become the country’s first Liberal prime minister. The gift was a token of appreciation for Churchill, then a Conservative, having crossed the aisle to back the Liberals.
9 de may. de 2024 · The watch, which carries an estimate of £20,000 to £30,000 (about $25,000–$38,000), was given to Churchill in 1905 by Liberal Party leader Herbert Henry Asquith. It includes an inscription from Asquith, who later became the U.K.’s first Liberal prime minister: “To Winston with gratitude H.H. Asquith, Xmas 1905.”.
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8 de may. de 2024 · The timepiece was given to Britain’s most famous prime minister by Herbert Henry Asquith, who would go on the become the country’s first Liberal prime minister. It was a token of appreciation...
5 de may. de 2024 · Yet these relationships mattered to Churchill, both personally and professionally. His collaboration with Herbert Henry Asquith and David Lloyd George created much of the modern welfare state; his work with Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Charles de Gaulle and Harry Truman moulded the postwar world.
