Editing H. H. Asquith (section)

== Final years: 1926–1928 ==
[[File:Asquith's tomb, All Saints church, Sutton Courtenay - geograph.org.uk - 362223.jpg|thumb|left|alt=HH Asquith tomb|Asquith's grave at Sutton Courtenay]]
Asquith filled his retirement with reading, writing, a little golf,{{sfn|Herbert Asquith|p=365}} travelling and meeting with friends.{{sfn|Jenkins|p=517}} Since 1918 he had developed an interest in modern painting and sculpture.{{sfn|Jenkins|p=517}}

His health remained reasonable, almost to the end, though financial concerns increasingly beset him.{{sfn|Bonham Carter|p=172}} A perhaps surprising contributor to an endowment fund established to support Asquith in 1927 was [[Lord Beaverbrook]] (the former Max Aitken), who contributed £1,000.{{sfn|Taylor|p=236}} Violet was highly embarrassed by her step-mother's attempts to enlist the aid of Aitken, [[Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading|Lord Reading]] and others of her husband's friends and acquaintances. "It is monstrous that other people (should) be made to foot Margot's bridge bills. '''How''' she has dragged his name through the mud!"{{sfn|Bonham Carter|p=173}}

Asquith suffered a second stroke in January 1927,{{sfn|Koss|p=282}} disabling his left leg for a while and leaving him a wheelchair-user for the spring and early summer of 1927.{{sfn|Jenkins|p=518}} Asquith's last visit was to see the widowed Venetia Montagu in Norfolk.{{sfn|Herbert Asquith|p=377}} On his return to The Wharf, in autumn 1927, he was unable to get out of his car and "he was never again able to go upstairs to his own room."{{sfn|Asquith 1934|loc=Epilogue}} He suffered a third stroke at the end of 1927.{{sfn|Koss|p=283}} His last months were difficult, and he became increasingly confused, his daughter Violet writing, "To watch Father's glorious mind breaking up and sinking—like a great ship—is a pain beyond all my imagining."{{sfn|Bonham Carter|p=173}}