The British film director Anthony Asquith was born on November 9,1902 to H.H. Asquith, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his second wife. (A former Home Secreatary and the future leader of the Liberal Party, H.H. Asquith served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908-1916 and was subsequently elevated to the hereditary peerage). The youngest child, Anthony, was called 'Puffin by his family, a nickname given him by his mother, who thought he resembled one. Puffin was also the nam ...[Read Story]