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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 ...
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 ...
Portrait of Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury. The Bonham-Carter family is a British family that has included several prominent people active in various spheres in the United Kingdom . Antecedents. The Bonham-Carter family are the descendants of John Bonham-Carter (1788–1838).
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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Violet Bonham Carter (Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury), 1887-1969 – Journal of Liberal History. By Jane Bonham Carter. Type: Biography. Violet Bonham Carter was born in Hampstead on 15 April 1887 as Helen Violet Asquith, the daughter of Herbert Henry Asquith and his first wife Helen Melland.
English political figure Helen Violet Bonham Carter (1887–1969), the Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, supported the British Liberal Party philosophies em- braced by her large and politically connected family. A good friend of Winston Churchill, she produced a well-known biography of the famed Prime Minister.
