Hon. Raymond Henry Bonham Carter (1929-2004)
Michael Rhodes
Ltd, 1967-77, who retired in 1979 following disability, died at his
home, 17 January, 2004. He was aged 74.
Mr Bonham Carter was father of the actress Helena Bonham Carter.
Raymond Henry Bonham Carter was born 19 June, 1929, the son of Sir
Maurice Bonham Carter, KCB, KCVO, by his wife Lady Violet Asquith
(afterwards Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury), and was a grandson of the
Liberal statesman(and Prime Minister), H.H. Asquith, afterwards 1st
Earl of Oxford & Asquith.
He was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford (BA
1952); and Harvard Business School.
Career: Irish Guards 1947-49; with J. Henry Schroder and Co., 1954-58;
acting adviser, Bank of England, 1958-63; Alternate Executive Director
for UK IMF, and member of the UK Treasury and Supply Delegation,
Washington, 1961-63; S.G. Warburg and Co., 1964; Director, Transport
Development Group Ltd, 1969-77; Banque de Paris et des pays Bas NV,
1973-77; Director, Mercury Securities Ltd, 1974-77; seconded as
Director, Industrial Development Unit, DOI, 1977-79; &c.
Mr Bonham Carter married in 1958, Elena Propper de Callejon; by whom
he had two sons, Edward and Thomas, and one daughter, Helena.
The funeral is at St John the Baptist, Stockton, near Warminster,
Wiltshire, Friday 23 January, 2004.
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Shinjinee
> Raymond Henry Bonham Carter was born 19 June, 1929, the son of Sir
> Maurice Bonham Carter, KCB, KCVO, by his wife Lady Violet Asquith
> (afterwards Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury), and was a grandson of the
> Liberal statesman(and Prime Minister), H.H. Asquith, afterwards 1st
> Earl of Oxford & Asquith.
His elder brother Mark was also a Life Peer (and was married to Leslie
Nast, daughter of the publisher Conde Nast, and former wife of the 2nd
Baron St. Just whose 2nd wife was the actress Maria Britney nee
Britneva). His brother-in-law (husband of his sister Laura) Jo
Grimond was also a Life Peer; one of their sons John Grimond (a
former newspaper editor) is married to a daughter of Peter Fleming
(brother of Ian, of James Bond fame) and the actress Celia Johnson.
[For more on their aristocratic and theatrical-literary-political
connections, check Fleming in Burke's LG or some messages on
alt.talk.royalty].
Quite a record for this family (the mother a Life Peeress, her father
a peer of first creation, one of her brothers another Life Peer;
elder son a Life Peer, younger daughter married to a Life Peer). And
perhaps, another nephew Sir Adam Ridley may be elevated to a Life
Peerage if he is lucky....
Shinjinee