In office 21 December 1964 – 19 February 1969 Life Peerage
Personal details
Born
Helen Violet Asquith
(1887-04-15)15 April 1887 Hampstead, London, England[1]
Died
19 February 1969(1969-02-19) (aged 81) London, England
Cause of death
Myocardial infarction
Resting place
St Andrew's Church, Mells
Political party
Liberal
Spouse
Sir Maurice Bonham Carter
(m. 1915; died 1960)
Children
Hon. Helen Bonham Carter
Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham Carter of Yarnbury
Hon. Raymond Bonham Carter
Laura, Baroness Grimond of Firth
Parents
H. H. Asquith
Helen Kelsall Melland
Relatives
Helena Bonham Carter (granddaughter)
Adam Ridley (grandson)
Jane Bonham Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (granddaughter)
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 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.
She was also involved in arts and literature. Her diaries cover her father's premiership before and during the First World War and continue until the 1960s. She was Sir Winston Churchill's closest female friend, apart from his wife, and her grandchildren include the actress Helena Bonham Carter.
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