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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
Mar 13, 2021 · Apart from his wife Clementine, Violet Asquith, later Lady Violet Bonham Carter, was one of Churchill’s closest women friends. At the time of their meeting, the Liberal Party had been swept into power by a vast majority.
Nov 22, 2019 · When she heard that her sons were going off to war in 1942, Lady Violet Bonham Carter sourced two tablets of morphia from Fortnum & Mason. Those were the days!
