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1 de ene. de 1995 · Violet Bonham Carter, daughter of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, was Churchill's close personal friend for nearly sixty years. Her book focuses on the formative and crucial years from 1906 to 1916 that shaped his political style as well as his philosophy.
25 de mar. de 2021 · Violet Bonham Carter’s Winston Churchill as I Knew Him (Winston Churchill: An Intimate Portrait in the U.S.) goes only to 1914. It remains one of the most honest and penetrating portraits of WSC by those who knew him. She possibly contemplated a sequel; unfortunately she died of a heart attack aged 81 in 1969.
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: Violet, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury; her son, Mark Raymond Bonham Carter; and her granddaughter, Jane Bonham Carter, were all separately made life peers of Yarnbury in the ...
1 de ene. de 1996 · Violet Bonham-Carter, grandmother to actress Helena Bonham-Carter, was a close friend of Churchill for most of her life. She offers her own personal view of Churchill for 'whatever it is worth' and does not claim it to be a in depth analysis of the man, or a comprehensive history of his life and work.
Bonham-Carter was also governor of the BBC (1940–46) and the Old Vic (1945), and she was the first woman to give the Romanes lecture at Oxford in 1963. Created a Dame of the British Empire (DBE) in 1953 and created baroness in 1964, she published Winston Churchill as I Knew Him in 1965. Bonham-Carter, Violet (1887–1969)British peer.
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.
25 de abr. de 2023 · Violet Asquith, later Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, is one of the most reliable close friends who wrote about Churchill. Her book, Winston Churchill as I Knew Him is a standard work, often cited by historians. This helped fuel media speculation, accompanied by lurid headlines, ...
