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Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, DBE (15 April 1887 – 19 February 1969), known until her marriage as Violet Asquith, was a British politician and diarist. She was the daughter of H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916, and she was known as Lady Violet, as a courtesy title, from her father's elevation to the ...
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Nov 4, 2021 · Born to Britain’s future prime minister in 1887, Violet Bonham Carter, the Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, was an outspoken politician and friend of Winston Churchill. Despite never receiving a formal education, she became the first woman to be elected president of Britain’s Liberal Party in 1945.
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Apr 2, 2021 · Lady Violet Bonham Carter, Bonham Carter’s paternal grandmother, was a feminist and liberal politician whose life straddled two world wars. “She lost her brother in the first, and then must have lived in such a state of terror, having dealt with that,” said Bonham Carter, who at times was at a loss for words when describing her family ...
She continued after Asquith’s death to be his most resolute defender, and the voice of Asquithian Liberalism. She was president of the Women’s Liberal Federation twice: 1923-25 and 1939-45. In 1945 she became President of the Liberal Party Organisation, the first woman to do so.
Apr 25, 2023 · Violet Asquith, later Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, is one of the most reliable close friends who wrote about Churchill. Her book, Winston Churchill as I Knew Him is a standard work, often cited by historians.
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Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, DBE (15 April 1887 – 19 February 1969), known until her marriage as Violet Asquith, was a British politician and diarist.
Mar 13, 2021 · Violet Bonham-Carter in 1915. After her father’s elevation to the peerage as Earl of Oxford and Asquith in 1925 she was known by the courtesy title “Lady Violet.” Long active in Liberal Party politics, she was elevated to a life peerage as Baroness Asquith of Yanbury in 1964.
