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Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, DBE , 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 Violet Bonham Carter was the daughter of HH Asquith and his first wife. She got to know Churchill soon after his marriage in 1906 and became his confidant on matters political for the rest of his life, although she remained a staunch liberal and was made a life peer in 1970.
Helen Violet Asquith Bonham Carter. 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.
Violet Bonham Carter. 15 books4 followers. Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, DBE, known until her marriage as Violet Asquith, was a British politician and diarist. She was the daughter of H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister from 1908–1916, and later became active in Liberal politics herself, being a leading opponent of ...
Violet Bonham Carter var 1923-1925 och 1939-1945 president för Women's Liberal Federation och från 1944 president för den National Liberal Party. Bonham Carter, som under andra världskriget energiskt stödde Winston Churchills politik, var 1941-1946 chef för British Broadcasting Corporation .
Originally published in 1998 by Weidenfeld and Nicholson, the second volume of the diaries and letters of Violet Bonham Carter, the daughter of the Prime Minister, Asquith. Bonham Carter was also a Liberal politician in her own right and this volume covers the years 1914-45, giving an insight into this important period in modern British history.
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