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About Violet Bonham Carter
Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury,, 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, a courtesy title, after her father's elevation to the peerage as Earl of Oxford and Asquith in 1925. Later she became active in Liberal politics herself, and was a leading opponent of appeasement. She stood for Parliament and became a life peer.
Everything about Violet Bonham Carter →- Occupation
- politician, diarist
- Position held
- member of the House of Lords, Governor of the BBC
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- April 15, 1887
- Died
- February 19, 1969