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The first Bonham-Carter, according to BLG, was:-
John Bonham-Carter, MP, DL, JP, b 1788. He was the son of Sir John
Carter, Knt. John B-C married Joanna Maria Smith, daughter of William
Smith, MP for Norwich (any relation to Smith of Midhurst and Queen
Eliz The Queen Mother?), on 25 December 1816. He assumed the
additional surname of Bonham before that of his patronymic on
succeeding to Bonham property. He died in 1838.
John and Maria had 2 sons:
(i) Alfred Bonham-Carter, CB, b 18 March 1825. He married 27 May 1879,
Mary Henrietta Norman (D 1893), scion of that LG family, daughter of
George Warde Norman and Sibella Stone. He died on 2 October 1910 at
age 85.
(ii) Henry Bonham-Carter, b 15 February 1827.He married, 10 June 1862,
Sibella Charlotte Norman (d 1916), scion of that LG family, daughter
of George Warde Norman and Sibella Stone (and sister of his brother's
wife above). He died 22 March 1921 at age 94. Henry Bonham-Carter was
managing director of Guardian Assurance between 1861 and 1899.
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The abovementioned Alfred (1825-1910) was father of Alfred Erskine
Bonham-Carter (1880-1921), who m. Margaret Emily Malcolm, scion of
Malcolm of Poltalloch, and was father of Rear-Admiral Christopher
Bonham-Carter (b 3 Nov 1907),sometime Treasurer to HRH The Duke of
Edinburgh, and was father of Peter Bonham-Carter (b 23 Dec 1936), who
was father of actor Crispin Bonham-Carter (b 23 Sept 1969), who
married Katharine Julian Dawnay (b 1968), scion of the Viscounts Downe
(and daughter of an Olivier kinswoman of Sir Laurence Olivier, Baron
Olivier).
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The abovementioned Henry Bonham-Carter (1827-1921) was father of (a)
General Sir Charles Bonham-Carter (d 1955), sometime Governor-General
and C-in-C, Malta; and (b) Sir Maurice Bonham-Carter (1880-1960), who
married 30 Nov 1915, Lady Helen Violet Asquith (1887-1969) later
Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, dau of the 1st Earl of Oxford & Asquith,
KG.
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The abovementioned Sir Maurice Bonham-Carter was father of (a) Helen
Laura Bonham-Carter, later Baroness Grimond, wife of Liberal party
leader the Rt Hon Jo Grimond, a life peer as Baron Grimond (1913-93);
and (b) Mark Bonham-Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter (life peer cr 1986)
(1922-94) (Mark is father of Jane Bonham-Carter, aka Baroness Bonham-
Carter of Yarnbury, b 1957, awarded a life peerage in 2004.) and (c)
Raymond Bonham-Carter (1929-2004), who was father of Helena Bonham-
Carter, actress (b 26 May, 1966).
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