Late Earl Of Oxford Asquith (1928)

Full titles read: Late Earl of Oxford Asquith Britain mourns the loss of one of her most distinguished Statesmen and a scholarly Paisley, Strathclyde. M, S of Lord Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford walking along a crowded street and coming close to the camera as he shakes hands with someone. (Title is repeated possibly replacing a missing intertitle. ) C, U of Lord Asquith talking to someone off camera. M, S of Asquith and two women (wife and daughter ) as they stand on the steps of a building, being pelted with flour bombs and brushing flour off their coats; the group then poses for the camera. This footage is probably from 1920, when Asquith won the Paisley Byelection. FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical