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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 elevation to the ...
2 de abr. de 2021 · Learn how the actress's paternal grandmother, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, was a feminist and liberal politician who opposed the Nazis and antisemitism. She was marked on a Gestapo blacklist and lost her son-in-law and daughter in World War II.
4 de nov. de 2021 · Learn about the life and legacy of Violet Bonham Carter, the daughter of a prime minister, the friend of Churchill, and the outspoken critic of Hitler. She was also the grandmother of actress Helena Bonham Carter and the first woman to lecture at Oxford.
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.
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.
Violet Bonham-Carter was the daughter of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and a prominent supporter of women's suffrage and European unity. She was also a governor of the BBC and the Old Vic, and a friend of Winston Churchill.
22 de nov. de 2019 · Lady Violet Bonham Carter, née Asquith, probably needs less introduction than the other side of Helena’s family. She revisits the sumptuous former family home outside Paris, Royaumont, where...
