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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.
Nov 4, 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.
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Apr 25, 2023 · Did Violet Asquith, the Prime Minister's daughter, try to kill herself after Churchill married Clementine in 1908? The Churchill Project examines the evidence and concludes that the story is unproven and unlikely.
Apr 2, 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.
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.
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.
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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.
