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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 elevation to the ...
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.
4 nov 2021 · Updated November 7, 2021. A skilled orator and activist, Lady Violet Asquith took Britain’s Liberal Party by storm — and made it onto Hitler’s most wanted list in the process. National Portrait Gallery Violet Bonham Carter was renowned for her intelligence, oratorical skills, and forward-thinking ideas.
In 1964 she was belatedly made a life peer and entered the House of Lords as Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury. Although by then seventy-seven, she made an immediate impact. Bonham Carter’s interests ranged wide. She was a fervent believer in the League of Nations, and was a member of the League of Nations Union until 1941.
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...
Correspondence and papers, 1892-1969 of Lady Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury (1887-1969), Liberal political figure, with correspondence and papers of other members of her family, 1852-2000.
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.
