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1 de ene. de 1995 · Violet Bonham Carter does just that as she writes about Winston Churchill and his life up to around 1916. It's a very charming book, but if you are looking for gossip about Winston Churchill's parents, this isn't the place for you. However, it is the book a politician, and her insight is quite nice to read.
- Violet Bonham Carter
Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, DBE, known until her marriage as Violet Asquith, was a British politician and diarist. She was the daughter of H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister from 1908–1916, and later became active in Liberal politics herself, being a leading opponent of appeasement, standing for Parliament and being made a life peer.
Bonham Carter and Burton lived in adjoining houses in Belsize Park, London. She owned one of the houses; Burton later bought the other, and they connected the two. In 2006, they bought the Mill House in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire. It was previously leased by her grandmother, Violet Bonham Carter, and owned by her great-grandfather H. H. Asquith.
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.
Helen Violet Bonham Carter (15 avril 1887 – 19 février 1969), baronne Asquith de Yarnbury, est une femme politique du Royaume-Uni. Elle est la fille de H. H. Asquith, Premier ministre de 1908 à 1916.
25 de mar. de 2021 · Lady Violet (continued from Part 1) By 1922, Churchill had been in the Liberal Party almost two decades, but change was afoot. In October the Lloyd George Coalition broke. In the ensuing election, Churchill was defeated as Liberal Member for Dundee. He ran in West Leicester as a “Liberal Free Trader” in December 1923, and lost again.
Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, DBE, known until her marriage as Violet Asquith, was a British politician and diarist. She was the daughter of H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister from 1908–1916, and later became active in Liberal politics herself, being a leading opponent of appeasement, standing for Parliament and being ...
