John Bonham-Carter (1817–1884)

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. ==Personal life==

In 1848, Bonham-Carter was married to his cousin Laura Maria Nicholson (–1862). Laura was the daughter of barrister George Thomas Nicholson of Waverley Abbey and Anne Elizabeth (née Smith) Nicholson. Her eldest sister, Marianne, married engineer Douglas Strutt Galton, her brother was Lieutenant-General Sir Lothian Nicholson and her grandfather was the prominent merchant Samuel Nicholson. Together, they were the parents of: • 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. ==See also==