16 JUNE 1933, Page 6

A sentence in TueSday's Times—"Lord Oxford and Asquith gaVe a

-piano solo "-strikes strange to- he eye. For most of us there is only One Lord Oxford and Asquith, and the further record that " Lord Oxford took prizes for Latin and music " reads like an extract from a paper of seventy years ago-:-till one remembers that there was no Lord Oxford then. The Lord Oxford of today is, of course, Mr. Asquith's grandson, the son of Raymond' Asquith, who was married in 1907 and killed iii action in 1916, nine years before his father took the title.

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