ABSTRACT
George Askwith was called to the bar in 1886 and became a member of the Inner Temple. There is no record of his reasons for taking up law, but it was one of the few options available to promising young men. He was the most academically gifted of the five Askwith brothers and the only one in the family to go to university; William, John and Henry, like their father, went into the army, and Charles chose the navy.
