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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 ...
- H. H. Asquith, Helen Kelsall Melland
- James Meston
The Bonham Carter family, as descended from Sir Maurice Bonham Carter and The Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, is the only example so far where three generations have received Life Peerages under the Life Peerages Act 1958: [note 1] Violet, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury; her son, Mark Raymond Bonham Carter; and her granddaughter, Jane Bonham Carter,...
Violet Bonham Carter (Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury), 1887-1969. 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.
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.
- Kaleena Fraga
For all her egalitarian and humanitarian principles, Violet Bonham Carter was a member of the old ruling caste, a toff. In 1961, after a lifetime of being driven about London, she returns from a...
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. (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)
Abstract. 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. Biographical / Historical.