| John Bonham-Carter | |
| Honorific Suffix: | DL JP |
| Office: | Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons Chairman of Ways and Means |
| Term Start: | 1872 |
| Term End: | 1874 |
| Predecessor: | John George Dodson |
| Successor: | Henry Cecil Raikes |
| Office1: | Member of Parliament for Winchester |
| Alongside1: | Sir James Buller East, Bt Thomas Willis Fleming William Barrow Simonds |
| Term Start1: | 1847 |
| Term End1: | 1874 |
| Birth Name: | John Carter |
| Birth Date: | 13 October 1817 |
| Birth Place: | Portsmouth |
| Death Place: | Petersfield, Hampshire |
| Alma Mater: | Clifton College Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Party: | Liberal |
| Parents: | John Bonham-Carter Joanna Maria Smith |
| Spouse: | |
| Relations: | See Bonham Carter family |
John Bonham-Carter DL JP (13 October 1817 - 26 November 1884) was an English Liberal politician.
Jack Bonham-Carter was the son of Joanna Maria Smith (1792–1884) and the Portsmouth Member of Parliament John Bonham-Carter (1788–1838).[1] 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 paternal grandparents were Dorothy (née Cuthbert) Carter and Sir John Carter, who served as Mayor of Portsmouth. His maternal grandfather was abolitionist William Smith and through his aunt Frances, he was a first cousin of Florence Nightingale.[2] His maternal uncle was Whig politician Benjamin Smith, father of his first cousins Barbara Bodichon and Benjamin Leigh Smith.[3]
He was educated at Clifton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.
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.[1]
He was a member of the Photographic Society of London, later the Royal Photographic Society, from 1853 until his death.He became Lord Mayor of London in 1859
From 1873 to 1884, he was a fellow of Winchester College.[1]
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:[4]
After the death of his first wife in 1862, he remarried to the Hon. Mary Baring (–1906) on 21 April 1864. Mary was the daughter of Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook and the former Jane Grey (daughter of Sir George Grey, 1st Baronet). Mary was the granddaughter of Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet and sister of Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook of the Barings Bank family.[5] Together, they were the parents of:
He died in Petersfield, Hampshire on 26 November 1884.[6]