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H. H. Asquith is a former featured article candidate. Please view the links under Article milestones below to see why the nomination was archived. For older candidates, please check the archive.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
October 21, 2016	Peer review	Reviewed
December 17, 2016	Featured article candidate	Not promoted

Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on December 5, 2014, December 5, 2016, and December 5, 2018.

Current status: Former featured article candidate

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Section sizes

Section size for H. H. Asquith (74 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	9,470	9,470
Early life: 1852–1874	29	8,590
Family background	1,987	1,987
Childhood and schooling	3,195	3,195
Oxford	3,379	3,379
Early professional career: 1874–1886	43	7,873
After Oxford	1,641	1,641
Marriage and children	3,118	3,118
The Spectator and politics	3,071	3,071
Member of Parliament: 1886–1908	38	16,865
Queen's Counsel	5,712	5,712
Widower and cabinet minister	3,796	7,432
Out of office	3,636	3,636
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1905–1908	3,683	3,683
Peacetime prime minister: 1908–1914	504	48,275
Appointments and cabinet	1,868	1,868
Prime minister at leisure	4,852	4,852
Domestic policy	22	25,655
Reforming the House of Lords	2,578	2,578
1909: People's Budget	4,409	4,409
1910: election and constitutional deadlock	6,197	6,197
1910–1911: second election and Parliament Act	3,870	3,870
Social, religious and labour matters	3,527	3,527
Votes for women	5,052	5,052
Irish Home Rule	7,820	7,820
Foreign and defence policy	3,538	3,538
July Crisis and outbreak of World War I	4,038	4,038
First year of the war: August 1914 – May 1915	119	11,218
Asquith's wartime government	4,318	4,318
Dardanelles Campaign	1,920	1,920
Shell Crisis of May 1915	2,280	2,280
Other events	2,581	2,581
First Coalition: May 1915 – December 1916	2,153	15,114
War re-organisation	2,217	2,217
Conscription	3,364	3,364
Ireland	1,560	1,560
Progress of the war	5,820	5,820
Fall: November–December 1916	1,213	26,052
Nigeria debate and Lord Lansdowne's memorandum	1,942	1,942
Triumvirate gathers	1,492	1,492
Power without responsibility	3,001	3,001
To-ing and fro-ing	2,096	2,096
Last four days: Sunday 3 December to Wednesday 6 December	872	16,308
Sunday 3 December	5,764	5,764
Monday 4 December	3,485	3,485
Tuesday 5 December	3,882	3,882
Wednesday 6 December	2,305	2,305
Wartime Opposition Leader: 1916–1918	3,847	7,895
Maurice Debate	2,865	2,865
End of the war	1,183	1,183
Decline and eclipse: 1918–1926	38	38,233
Coupon election	4,417	4,417
1919: out of Parliament	3,859	3,859
Paisley	2,887	2,887
Leader of the Opposition: 1920–1921	4,479	4,479
Leader of the Opposition: 1922	4,506	4,506
Liberal reunion	3,860	3,860
Putting Labour in power	2,083	2,083
Labour government and the Campbell Case	1,899	1,899
1924 election	1,764	1,764
Elevation	2,008	2,008
Oxford University chancellor election	1,818	1,818
Resignation	4,615	4,615
Final years: 1926–1928	1,901	1,901
Death	2,480	2,480
Descendants	4,314	4,314
Assessment	9,022	9,022
See also	53	53
Notes	115	115
References	33	33
Sources	24,586	30,143
Primary sources	5,557	5,557
Further reading	3,441	3,441
External links	7,945	7,945
Total	249,032	249,032