English publisher & politician, created a life peer in 1986.
son of liberal activists Maurice & Helen Violet (Asquith) Bonham-Carter--daughter of the Liberal Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. Mark was the second-youngest of four children; Helen, Laura, Mark, and Raymond.
Educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read PPE, his studies were interrupted by the Second World War, and he was commissioned in the Grenadier Guards in November 1941. Captured in Tunisia in 1943 and imprisoned in Italy, he escaped and walked four hundred miles to return to British lines, being mentioned in dispatches. Bonham-Carter concluded the war by standing as the unsuccessful Liberal candidate for Barnstaple in the 1945 general election, before returning to finish the last year of his course at Oxford. He then spent a year at the University of Chicago before going into publishing, working for the Collins publishing firm but left as his directors did not agree with his political activities.
Wed 30 June 1955 to Leslie Nast--Lady St Just, the former wife of Peter George Grenfell, 2nd Baron St Just ; 3 daughters: Jane (created Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury), Virginia, and Eliza Bonham-Carter.
Mark's niece is actress Helena Bonham-Carter.
son of liberal activists Maurice & Helen Violet (Asquith) Bonham-Carter--daughter of the Liberal Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. Mark was the second-youngest of four children; Helen, Laura, Mark, and Raymond.
Educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read PPE, his studies were interrupted by the Second World War, and he was commissioned in the Grenadier Guards in November 1941. Captured in Tunisia in 1943 and imprisoned in Italy, he escaped and walked four hundred miles to return to British lines, being mentioned in dispatches. Bonham-Carter concluded the war by standing as the unsuccessful Liberal candidate for Barnstaple in the 1945 general election, before returning to finish the last year of his course at Oxford. He then spent a year at the University of Chicago before going into publishing, working for the Collins publishing firm but left as his directors did not agree with his political activities.
Wed 30 June 1955 to Leslie Nast--Lady St Just, the former wife of Peter George Grenfell, 2nd Baron St Just ; 3 daughters: Jane (created Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury), Virginia, and Eliza Bonham-Carter.
Mark's niece is actress Helena Bonham-Carter.
English publisher & politician, created a life peer in 1986.
son of liberal activists Maurice & Helen Violet (Asquith) Bonham-Carter--daughter of the Liberal Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. Mark was the second-youngest of four children; Helen, Laura, Mark, and Raymond.
Educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read PPE, his studies were interrupted by the Second World War, and he was commissioned in the Grenadier Guards in November 1941. Captured in Tunisia in 1943 and imprisoned in Italy, he escaped and walked four hundred miles to return to British lines, being mentioned in dispatches. Bonham-Carter concluded the war by standing as the unsuccessful Liberal candidate for Barnstaple in the 1945 general election, before returning to finish the last year of his course at Oxford. He then spent a year at the University of Chicago before going into publishing, working for the Collins publishing firm but left as his directors did not agree with his political activities.
Wed 30 June 1955 to Leslie Nast--Lady St Just, the former wife of Peter George Grenfell, 2nd Baron St Just ; 3 daughters: Jane (created Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury), Virginia, and Eliza Bonham-Carter.
Mark's niece is actress Helena Bonham-Carter.
son of liberal activists Maurice & Helen Violet (Asquith) Bonham-Carter--daughter of the Liberal Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. Mark was the second-youngest of four children; Helen, Laura, Mark, and Raymond.
Educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read PPE, his studies were interrupted by the Second World War, and he was commissioned in the Grenadier Guards in November 1941. Captured in Tunisia in 1943 and imprisoned in Italy, he escaped and walked four hundred miles to return to British lines, being mentioned in dispatches. Bonham-Carter concluded the war by standing as the unsuccessful Liberal candidate for Barnstaple in the 1945 general election, before returning to finish the last year of his course at Oxford. He then spent a year at the University of Chicago before going into publishing, working for the Collins publishing firm but left as his directors did not agree with his political activities.
Wed 30 June 1955 to Leslie Nast--Lady St Just, the former wife of Peter George Grenfell, 2nd Baron St Just ; 3 daughters: Jane (created Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury), Virginia, and Eliza Bonham-Carter.
Mark's niece is actress Helena Bonham-Carter.
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