Violet Bonham Carter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Violet Bonham Carter

politician

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1887

Place of Birth: Hampstead, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 19-Feb-1969

Profession: politician, diarist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, (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 1908–1916, and later became active in Liberal politics herself, being a leading opponent of appeasement, standing for Parliament and being made a life peer.
She was also involved in arts and literature.
Her illuminating 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.