(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury (1887-1969), Politician; President of the Liberal Party Organisation; wife of Sir Maurice Bonham Carter; daughter of H.H. Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith
Sitter associated with 31 portraits
The daughter of prime minister Herbert Asquith, she married her father's principal private secretary, Sir Maurice Bonham Carter, in 1915. She was president of the Women's Liberal Federation and was active in a number of anti-fascist groups in the 1930s. After the war, she was president of the Liberal Party Organisation until 1947. She stood unsuccessfully in the 1945 and 1951 elections. Her greatest political impact was made after the war when she condemned the British invasion of Suez in 1956. In a letter to The Times, quoted in the House of Commons, she argued that the invasion rendered Britain morally impotent at a time when it needed all of its authority to challenge the Soviet repression of Hungary.
(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Oscar Nemon
bronze bust, 1960
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Elliott & Fry
vintage print
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury; Lady Ottoline Morrell
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1914
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1914
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury and three others
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1914
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Lady Ottoline Morrell; (Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury; Robert Baldwin Ross
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury; Robert Baldwin Ross
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Lady Ottoline Morrell; (Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1919
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1933
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1933
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1933
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1933
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1933
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1933
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury; Winston Churchill
by Sefton Samuels
bromide print on card mount, October 1951
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, April 1965
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Bill Brandt
bromide print, published in Harper's Bazaar, New York July 1945
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea
platinum print, 1890s
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by George Charles Beresford
dry-plate glass negative, 1907
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1933
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 10 March 1936
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Bassano
half-plate film negative, 30 June 1947
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Bassano
half-plate film negative, 30 June 1947
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Elliott & Fry
quarter-plate glass negative, 1950
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Elliott & Fry
quarter-plate glass negative, 1950
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass negative, 1950
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Elliott & Fry
quarter-plate glass negative, 1950
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(Helen) Violet Bonham Carter (née Asquith), Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
by Elliott & Fry
quarter-plate glass negative, 1950
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Asquith
Related People
Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone (brother)
Lady Helen Frances Asquith (niece)
Arthur Melland Asquith (brother)
Paul Asquith (nephew)
Raymond Asquith (brother)
Mark Raymond Bonham-Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter (son)
Helena Bonham Carter (granddaughter)
Sir Maurice Bonham-Carter (husband)
Christine Clark (née Asquith) (niece)
Perdita Rose Mary Jolliffe (née Asquith), Lady Hylton (niece)
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (father)
Julian Edward George Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith (nephew)
(April) Mary Rous (née Asquith), Countess of Stradbroke (niece)
Jean Constance Toynbee (née Asquith) (niece)
Category
Politics, Government and Diplomacy
Place
Hungary
