# Bonham Carter family

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{{Short description|British family}}
thumb|Coat of Arms of the Bonham Carter family
The '''Bonham Carter family''' is a [British](/source/British_people) family that has included several prominent people active in various spheres in the [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom).

==Antecedents==
[[File:National_Liberal_Club_portrait_of_Violet_Bonham_Carter.jpg|thumb|right|Portrait of [Violet Bonham Carter](/source/Violet_Bonham_Carter), [Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury](/source/Asquith_family), paternal grandmother of [Helena Bonham Carter](/source/Helena_Bonham_Carter) and [Jane Bonham Carter, Baroness Bonham Carter of Yarnbury](/source/Jane_Bonham_Carter%2C_Baroness_Bonham_Carter_of_Yarnbury), maternal grandmother of [Sir Adam Nicholas Ridley](/source/Adam_Ridley)]]
The Bonham Carter family are the descendants of [John Bonham Carter](/source/John_Bonham_Carter_(1788%E2%80%931838)) (1788–1838) and Joanna Maria Smith (1791–1884).

He was the son of [Sir John Carter](/source/John_Carter_(Mayor_of_Portsmouth)) (born before 20 December 1741 – 18 May 1808, sometime [Mayor of Portsmouth](/source/Mayor_of_Portsmouth), himself a son of John Carter, a merchant). He assumed the additional surname Bonham by [royal licence](/source/royal_licence) when he [inherited the estates of his cousin](/source/Name_change) Thomas Bonham.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.buriton.org.uk/bhb/infosheet05.htm |title=The Bonham Carter family, Buriton Heritage Bank |access-date=2011-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719114600/http://www.buriton.org.uk/bhb/infosheet05.htm |archive-date=2011-07-19 }}</ref> Most of the Bonham Carters have belonged to [Unitarian churches](/source/General_Assembly_of_Unitarian_and_Free_Christian_Churches).

The first to use the [double-barrelled name](/source/double-barrelled_name), John Bonham Carter (1788–1838), was a British [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament) and [barrister](/source/barrister). His wife Joanna Maria Smith was the daughter of [William Smith](/source/William_Smith_(abolitionist)), the [abolitionist](/source/Abolitionism_in_the_United_Kingdom) MP; her sister Frances was the mother of [Florence Nightingale](/source/Florence_Nightingale), and her brother [Benjamin](/source/Benjamin_Smith_(British_Whig_politician)) was the father of [Barbara Bodichon](/source/Barbara_Bodichon) and [Benjamin Leigh Smith](/source/Benjamin_Leigh_Smith).

John and Joanna's daughter, (Joanna) Hilary Bonham Carter (1821–1865), was an artist and friend of political journalist [Harriet Martineau](/source/Harriet_Martineau). Hilary's portraits of her cousin Florence Nightingale are held in the [National Portrait Gallery](/source/National_Portrait_Gallery%2C_London).<ref>{{cite web|last1=Portrait Gallery|first1=National|title=Collection of Joanna Hilary Bonham Carter (1821–1865)|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp71190/joanna-hilary-bonham-carter|website=London NPG UK|publisher=UK Government – NPG|access-date=22 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Zastoupil|first1=Lyn|title=Rammohun Roy and the Making of Victorian Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JbBhAQAAQBAJ&q=martineau+florence+nightingale+joanna+hilary+bonham+carter&pg=PP148|website=Rammohun Roy and the Making of Victorian Britain – Footnote 122|date=16 August 2010|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan, copyright 2010|isbn=9780230111493|access-date=22 June 2013}}</ref>

John and Joanna had a son, the fourth generation [named John](/source/John_Bonham_Carter_(1817-1884)) (1817–1884), and also an MP. This John Bonham Carter briefly served as a [Lord of the Treasury](/source/Lord_of_the_Treasury) in 1866.

His third son by his second wife, [The Hon.](/source/The_Honourable) Mary Baring (a daughter of [The 1st Baron Northbrook](/source/Francis_Baring%2C_1st_Baron_Northbrook)), was Arthur Thomas Bonham Carter, [KC](/source/King's_Counsel) (1869–1916), who was educated at [Winchester College](/source/Winchester_College) and [Trinity College, Cambridge](/source/Trinity_College%2C_Cambridge). A. T. Bonham Carter was a soldier and barrister, eventually serving as a Justice of the bench of His Majesty's High Court of [British East Africa](/source/British_East_Africa), which was based in [Mombasa](/source/Mombasa). Mr Justice Bonham Carter was still a judge on the bench of this court when the [First World War](/source/First_World_War) broke out in 1914. He later resigned from the colonial bench in British East Africa and joined, as an officer, The 1st Battalion, [The Hampshire Regiment](/source/The_Hampshire_Regiment), eventually being promoted to the rank of [captain](/source/Captain_(British_Army)). He was killed serving with this regiment on the first day of the [Battle of the Somme](/source/Battle_of_the_Somme), 1 July 1916, and was later buried in Serre Road Military Cemetery No. 2, near [Beaumont-Hamel](/source/Beaumont-Hamel) in northern [France](/source/France). Captain Bonham Carter's name appears on the war memorial at the [Muthaiga Country Club](/source/Muthaiga_Country_Club) in [Nairobi](/source/Nairobi).{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}}

The Bonham Carter family, as descended from [Sir Maurice Bonham Carter](/source/Maurice_Bonham_Carter) and [The Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury](/source/Violet_Bonham_Carter%2C_Baroness_Asquith_of_Yarnbury), is the only example so far where three generations have received [life peer](/source/life_peer)ages under the [Life Peerages Act 1958](/source/Life_Peerages_Act_1958):<ref group=note>The titles of the three judges [Baron Russell of Killowen](/source/Baron_Russell_of_Killowen_(disambiguation)) were created under the [Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876](/source/Appellate_Jurisdiction_Act_1876).</ref> Violet, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury; her son, [Mark Raymond Bonham Carter](/source/Mark_Bonham_Carter%2C_Baron_Bonham-Carter); and her granddaughter, [Jane Bonham Carter](/source/Jane_Bonham_Carter%2C_Baroness_Bonham_Carter_of_Yarnbury), were all separately made life peers of Yarnbury in the [County of Wiltshire](/source/County_of_Wiltshire).

One of the most famous members of the Bonham Carter family is the film actress [Helena Bonham Carter](/source/Helena_Bonham_Carter), a two-time [Academy Award](/source/Academy_Award) nominee and [British Academy Film Award](/source/British_Academy_Film_Award) winner.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}}

==Prominent members==
''Living descendants are omitted, unless they are notable or have a separate Wikipedia entry. Each indentation indicates a generation.''

The family members include:
* [John Bonham-Carter (1788–1838)](/source/John_Bonham-Carter_(1788%E2%80%931838)), MP, married Joanna Maria Smith, daughter of [William Smith (1756–1835)](/source/William_Smith_(abolitionist)), abolitionist.
:*[John Bonham-Carter (1817–1884)](/source/John_Bonham-Carter_(1817%E2%80%931884)), MP, married Mary Baring, daughter of [Francis Thornhill Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook](/source/Francis_Thornhill_Baring%2C_1st_Baron_Northbrook)
::* [Lothian George Bonham-Carter](/source/Lothian_Bonham-Carter) (1858–1927), married Emily Maud Sumner
:::* Esme Mary Maud Bonham Carter (1884–1956), married (1) Basil Murray Tomlinson, married (2) John Selwyn
:::* Algernon Bonham Carter (1888–1957), married Myra Foyle
:::* Admiral [Sir Stuart Sumner Bonham Carter](/source/Stuart_Bonham_Carter) (1889–1972), married Eve Lloyd
:* Alfred Bonham Carter (1825–1910), married Mary Henrietta Norman
::* Guy Bonham Carter (1884–1915), married Kathleen Arkwright, one son, one daughter
::* Alfred Erskine Bonham Carter (1880–1921), married Margaret Emily Malcolm
:::* Rear-Admiral [Sir](/source/Sir) [Christopher Douglas Bonham-Carter](/source/Christopher_Douglas_Bonham-Carter) (1907–1975), married Marion MacIntyre Hutchinson Taylor
:::* Dr Richard Erskine Bonham-Carter (1910-1994)
::::* Peter Malcolm Bonham-Carter (1936–2019), married Clodagh Greenwood
:::::* [Crispin Daniel Bonham-Carter](/source/Crispin_Bonham-Carter) (b. 1969), married Katherine Julian Dawnay, four sons
:* Henry Bonham Carter (1827–1921), married Sibella Charlotte Norman
::* Herman Bonham-Carter (1863–1945), married Margaret Louisa Wathen (c.1861–1940), daughter of [William Wathen](/source/William_Wathen)
:::* [Philip Bonham-Carter](/source/Philip_Bonham-Carter) (1891–1934), cricketer and Royal Navy officer
:::* Katherine Hilary Margaret Bonham-Carter (1901-1989), married [Sir John Wakeling Baker](/source/John_Baker_(RAF_officer))
::* Walter Henry Bonham-Carter (1866-1947)
::* Sir [Edgar Bonham-Carter](/source/Edgar_Bonham-Carter) (1870–1956)
::* General Sir [Charles Bonham-Carter](/source/Charles_Bonham-Carter) (1876–1955), married Gabriele Fisher
:::*[Victor Bonham-Carter](/source/Victor_Bonham-Carter) (1913–2007)
:::**[Graeme Bonham-Carter](/source/Graeme_Bonham-Carter) (born 1939)
::* Sir [Maurice Bonham Carter](/source/Maurice_Bonham_Carter) (1880–1960) married [Violet Asquith, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury](/source/Violet_Bonham_Carter), life peer.
:::* [Helen Cressida Bonham Carter](/source/Cressida_Ridley) (1916–1998), married Jasper Ridley (1913–1944) 
::::* [Sir Adam Nicholas Ridley](/source/Adam_Ridley) (born 1942), married (1) Lady Katherine [Asquith](/source/Earl_of_Oxford_and_Asquith) (divorced) and (2) Margaret Anne Passmore, three sons
:::* [Laura Miranda Bonham Carter](/source/Laura_Miranda_Grimond) (1918–1994), married the [Liberal Party](/source/Liberal_Party_(UK)) leader [Jo Grimond](/source/Jo_Grimond),<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-laura-grimond-1394637.html Obituary: Laura Grimond, ''The Independent'', 17 February 1994]. Retrieved on 19 July 2012.</ref> three sons, one daughter 
:::* [Mark Raymond Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter](/source/Mark_Bonham_Carter%2C_Baron_Bonham-Carter) (1922–1994), MP, life peer, married Leslie Nast, three daughters
::::* [Jane Bonham Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury](/source/Jane_Bonham_Carter%2C_Baroness_Bonham-Carter_of_Yarnbury) (b. 1957), life peer, partner of [Tim Razzall, Baron Razzall](/source/Tim_Razzall%2C_Baron_Razzall)
:::* [Raymond Henry Bonham Carter](/source/Raymond_Bonham_Carter) (1929–2004), married Elena Propper de Callejón, two sons, one daughter
::::* [Edward Henry Bonham Carter](/source/Edward_Bonham_Carter) (b. 1960), married [Victoria Studd](/source/Victoria_Studd), two sons, one daughter
::::* [Helena Bonham Carter](/source/Helena_Bonham_Carter) (b. 1966), has children with former partner [Tim Burton](/source/Tim_Burton), one son, one daughter
:* Hugh Bonham Carter (1832–1896), married Jane Margaret MacDonald (1849–1911)
::* Air Commodore [Ian Malcolm Bonham-Carter](/source/Ian_Bonham-Carter) (1882–1953)
::* Francis Hugh Bonham-Carter, married in 1911 Gillian Margaret Hope Somerville (1890–1982, later wife of prince [Maximilian von Lobkowicz](/source/Maximilian_von_Lobkowicz), 1888–1967)

==See also==
*[Asquith family](/source/Asquith_family)

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=041-bonham&cid=0#0 Bonham Carter Family Papers, The National Archives (UK)]
*{{Citation | editor-first = Charles | editor-last= Mosley | editor-link= Charles Mosley (genealogist) | year = 2003 | title = Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage | edition = 107th | publisher = [Burke's Peerage](/source/Burke's_Peerage) (Genealogical Books) Ltd | location = Wilmington, Delaware | volume = 2 | pages = 3037–3038 | isbn = 978-0-9711966-2-9}}

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