Julian Edward George Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith Knight Commander of the Order of Street Michael and Saint George was a British colonial administrator and hereditary peer.
Background
Asquith was the only son of Raymond Asquith, a barrister, by his wife the former Katharine Horner. He was the grandson of H. H. Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, British Prime Minister from 1908 until 1916. He inherited the earldom in 1928 on the death of his grandfather, since his father had been killed in the First World War.
He was raised as a Roman Catholic after his mother"s conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1923 and was educated at Street Ronan"s School and Ampleforth College.
Education
He then became a scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts.
Career
Lord Oxford"s two older sisters both predeceased him. The younger of these was Lady Perdita Rose Mary Asquith, later Lady Hylton (1910–1996), who was married to William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton and became the grandmother of the actress Anna Chancellor. In 1941, Asquith was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers and from 1942 to 1948 he was an Assistant District Commissioner in Palestine.
Lord Oxford was Deputy Chairman Secretary of the British Administration Tripolitania from 1949 to 1950, Director of Interior Tripolitania in 1951 and Advisor to the Prime Minister of Libya in 1952.
In 1955 he was Administrative Secretary of Zanzibar and from 1958 to 1962 was the Administrator of Saint Lucia. Oxford was the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Seychelles from 1962 to 1967, and the Commander of the British Indian Ocean Territory from 1965 to 1967.
He also held the posts of Constitutional Commander of the Cayman Islands in 1971, and Turks and Caicos Islands from 1973 to 1974.