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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.
4 de nov. de 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.
2 de abr. de 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 ...
Violet Bonham Carter (Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury), 1887-1969 – Journal of Liberal History. 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.
Bonham-Carter, Violet (1887–1969) British peer. Name variations: Lady or Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury.
She was president of the Women's Liberal Federation and was active in a number of anti-fascist groups in the 1930s. After the war, she was president of the Liberal Party Organisation until 1947. She stood unsuccessfully in the 1945 and 1951 elections.
Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury (1887-1969) was born in Hampstead, London, the fourth of five children, and the only daughter of Herbert Henry Asquith, later 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, and his first wife Helen Kesall Asquith née Melland.
