Editing H. H. Asquith (section)

=== After Oxford ===
{{Quote box|width=30%|bgcolor=#c6dbf7|align=right|quoted=y | quote= Perhaps because of his stark beginnings, Asquith was always attracted to the comforts and accoutrements that money can buy. He was personally extravagant, always enjoying the good life—good food, good companions, good conversation and attractive women. |salign = right|source=Naomi Levine, in a 1991 biography{{sfn|Levine|p=76}}}}

After his graduation in 1874, Asquith spent several months coaching [[Newton Wallop, 6th Earl of Portsmouth|Viscount Lymington]], the 18-year-old son and heir of the [[Earl of Portsmouth]]. He found the experience of aristocratic country-house life agreeable.{{sfn|Bates|p=12}}{{sfn|Jenkins|p=25}} He liked less the austere side of the nonconformist Liberal tradition, with its strong [[temperance movement]]. He was proud of ridding himself of "the [[Puritanism]] in which I was bred".{{sfn|Rintala|p=111}} His fondness for fine wines and spirits, which began at this period, eventually earned him the sobriquet "[[wikt:squiffy|Squiffy]]".{{sfn|Rintala|p=118}}

Returning to Oxford, Asquith spent the first year of his seven-year fellowship in residence there. But he had no wish to pursue a career as a [[University don|don]]; the traditional route for politically ambitious but unmoneyed young men was through the law.{{sfn|Jenkins|p=25}} While still at Oxford Asquith had already entered [[Lincoln's Inn]] to train as a [[barrister]], and in 1875 he served a [[pupillage]] under [[Charles Bowen, 1st Baron Bowen|Charles Bowen]].{{sfn|Jenkins|p=27}} He was [[called to the bar]] in June 1876.{{sfn|Alderson|p=36}}