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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 ...
4 nov 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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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. In 1891 Violet’s mother died of typhoid fever, and in 1894 Asquith married Margot Tennant.
2 apr 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 ...
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 ...
13 ago 2000 · Is it possible to be smitten by a woman who died 31 years ago aged 81 simply through the diaries she wrote in the last two decades of her life? In the case of Violet Bonham Carter, the answer is...
13 mar 2021 · Violet Bonham-Carter in 1915. After her father’s elevation to the peerage as Earl of Oxford and Asquith in 1925 she was known by the courtesy title “Lady Violet.” Long active in Liberal Party politics, she was elevated to a life peerage as Baroness Asquith of Yanbury in 1964.
