John Bonham-Carter

John Bonham-Carter DL JP (13 October 1817 – 26 November 1884) was an English Liberal politician, member of the prominent Bonham Carter family.

Early life Jack Bonham-Carter was the son of Joanna Maria Smith (1792–1884) and the Portsmouth Member of Parliament John Bonham-Carter (1788–1838). Among his siblings was the artist Hilary Bonham Carter, a friend of political journalist Harriet Martineau, and Elinor Mary Bonham Carter, the wife of prominent jurist Albert Venn Dicey. His maternal uncle was Whig politician Benjamin Smith, father of his first cousins Barbara Bodichon and Benjamin Leigh Smith.

He was educated at Clifton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Career From 1847 to 1874, he was a Liberal MP for Winchester. He was briefly a Lord of the Treasury in 1866, and during his last two years in Parliament, he was Chairman of Ways and Means. In 1879, he served as High Sheriff of Hampshire, an office his father held in 1829. He became Lord Mayor of London in 1859

From 1873 to 1884, he was a fellow of Winchester College.

Amy Laura Bonham-Carter (–1859), who died young. Together, they were the parents of:

Mary Grey Bonham-Carter (–1917) Arthur Thomas Bonham-Carter (1869-1916) served as a magistrate in the Transvaal from 1902 until 1905 when he was transferred to Mombasa. In 1906 he was appointed a Judge in the East African Protectorate. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he returned to the Hampshire Regiment, with whom he had served in the 1899-1901 South African War. He was killed on 1 July 1916 during the Somme offensive whilst leading an attack on the woods near Beaumont Hamel. There are no details of his death recorded in the regimental war diary for that day because all the officers of the 1st Battalion The Hampshire Regiment were either killed or injured. Amy Laura Bonham-Carter.

He died in Petersfield, Hampshire on 26 November 1884.