the dinner party at which they first met, Churchill concluded a thought with words to the effect that "Of course, we are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow worm". Family Violet Asquith married her father's Principal Private Secretary, Maurice Bonham Carter, in 1915. They had four children together: Helen Laura Cressida Bonham Carter, Mrs Jasper Ridley, mother of the economist Sir Adam Ridley. Laura Miranda Bonham Carter, Lady Grimond, wife of the Liberal Party leader Jo Grimond. Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter, a Liberal Member of Parliament before going to the House of Lords, and father of Jane Bonham Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury. Raymond Bonham Carter, father of the actress Helena Bonham Carter. Their long-term London address was 21 Hyde Park Square. References Further reading (A biography of the young Winston Churchill) Lady Violet Bonham Carter, DBE, "British Democracy Today and Yesterday, the Challenge to the Individual". The Falconer Lectures, University of Toronto, 10/11 November 1953. Violet Asquith at Spartacus Educational, includes quotations. Accessed June 2008 Catalogue of the correspondence and papers of Lady Violet Bonham Carter, 1892–1969, University of Oxford, Elizabeth Turner 2003 Lady Violet Bonham-Carter has also been cited many times in Lynne Olson's 2007 history, Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England (Farrar Straus Giroux, Publ.) External links Violet Bonham Carter discussing the women's suffrage movement 1887 births 1969 deaths 20th-century English writers 20th-century English women writers BBC Governors Violet Children of prime ministers of the United Kingdom Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire Daughters of British earls English diarists Women diarists Asquith family People from Wiltshire People from Sutton Courtenay Presidents of the Liberal Party (UK) Liberal Party (UK) life peers Liberal Party (UK) parliamentary candidates British women memoirists British feminists English memoirists Life peeresses created by Elizabeth II Bonham Carter 1 Wives of knights Children of H. H. Asquith