Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone

Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone, PC (5 February 1890 – 24 August 1954) was an English barrister, judge and law lord.

Cyril Asquith was the fourth son of H. H. Asquith – later Prime Minister and subsequently Earl of Oxford and Asquith – from his first marriage, to Helen Kelsall Melland.

He was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. During the First World War he served in the 16th Battalion (Queen's Westminster Rifles), London Regiment, gaining the rank of Captain. In September 1917 he joined the Ministry of Munitions delegation on the British War Mission to the United States, and served for a time in America.

He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1920. In 1936 he was elected to serve on the Liberal Party Council. He took silk in 1936 and was appointed Bencher in 1939.

Asquith was appointed as a Justice of the King's Bench Division of the High Court in 1938, receiving the customary knighthood. His appointment caused some surprise at the bar, and the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Hewart, felt that he had not been properly consulted about the appointment. In 1946, Asquith was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal and was sworn into the Privy Council.