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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.
4 de nov. de 2021 · Learn about the life and legacy of Violet Bonham Carter, the daughter of a prime minister, the friend of Churchill, and the outspoken critic of Hitler. She was also the grandmother of actress Helena Bonham Carter and the first woman to lecture at Oxford.
Violet Bonham Carter (1887-1969) was a passionate Liberal, a champion of her father Herbert Henry Asquith, and a friend of Winston Churchill. She was a prominent figure in the League of Nations, the European movement, the BBC, and the arts, and wrote a book about Churchill.
13 de mar. de 2021 · Learn about the life and relationship of Violet Bonham Carter, one of Winston Churchill's closest women friends and the daughter of Prime Minister H.H. Asquith. Read how they met, how she reacted to his marriage, and how they stayed in touch during the First World War.
(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury (1887-1969), President of the Liberal Party Organisation; wife of Sir Maurice Bonham Carter; daughter of Herbert Asquith. Sitter associated with 31 portraits
A woman of exceptional public spirit, Violet Bonham Carter combined duties as an air-raid warden with a second term as president of the Women's Liberal Federation during 1939–45. In 1944 she became president-elect of the Liberal Party Organization .
Lady Violet Bonham Carter, as she was now known, subsequently went on to fight two elections in her own right, Wells, Somerset in 1945 and Colne Valley, Yorkshire in 1951, losing on both occasions. Her upbringing made her ideally suited to hold the position of President of the Women's Liberal Federation, an office she held twice, from 1923-1925 ...
