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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 · 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.
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The family members include: John Bonham-Carter (1788–1838), MP, married Joanna Maria Smith, daughter of William Smith (1756–1835), abolitionist. Sir Maurice Bonham Carter (1880–1960) married Violet Asquith, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, life peer.
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.
Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury,, 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 peerage as Earl of Oxford and Asquith in 1925.
Lady Helen Violet Bonham Carter, the future Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, was born as Helen Violet Asquith on April 15, 1887, in Hampstead, London in England, into a large, influential family heavily involved in the British political system.
Jun 12, 2024 · 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.
