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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 · A: Unproven and unlikely. 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.
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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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.
Aug 13, 2000 · For all her egalitarian and humanitarian principles, Violet Bonham Carter was a member of the old ruling caste, a toff. In 1961, after a lifetime of being driven about London, she returns...
Mar 13, 2021 · Winston Churchill held his first office in their government as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (December 1905-April 1908). Nineteen-year-old Violet was fully aware of Churchill’s vivid exploits in South Africa, his fame and emerging career.
Carter, (Helen) Violet Bonham [née (Helen) Violet Asquith], Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury (1887–1969), politician | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
