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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.
Violet Bonham Carter (1887-1969) was a passionate Liberal, a champion of her father Herbert Henry Asquith, and a friend of Winston Churchill. She was a prominent figure in the League of Nations, the European movement, the BBC, and the arts, and wrote a book about Churchill.
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.
Helen Violet Bonham Carter, baronesa Asquith de Yarnbury, DBE (15 de abril de 1887 - 19 de febrero de 1969), conocida hasta su matrimonio como Violet Asquith, fue una política y periodista británica .
13 de mar. de 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.
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.
A woman of exceptional public spirit, Violet Bonham Carter combined duties as an air-raid warden with a second term as president of the Women's Liberal Federation during 1939–45. In 1944 she became president-elect of the Liberal Party Organization.
