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The third son of John Bonham-Carter M.P. J.P. D.L. (Fellow of Winchester College, 1873-1884), of Adhurst St. Mary, Petersfield, and of Laura Bonham-Carter. She died in 1859 and his father remarried the Hon Mary Baring, daughter of Lord Northbrook, becoming his second wife. He entered Mr. Bramston's House from St George's Preparatory School in Ascot. He shot for Wimbledon VIII in 1887. The same year he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his degree in 1890. In 1894 he was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple and joined the Western Circuit. On the outbreak of the South African War of 1899-1902 he offered his services and obtained a commission in the 1st Volunteer Company of the Hampshire Regiment. From 1902 to 1914 he held various judicial appointments in the Transvaal and British East Africa, and when the European War broke out he was First Puisne Judge of the High Court at Mombasa. He immediately undertook the organization of the Mombasa Town Guard and served for several months with the Defence Force as Director of Military Supplies. He returned to England and joined the 3rd Battalion (Special Reserve) and was posted to the 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment. His British Army Medal Roll Index Card indicates that he went to France on February 8th 1916 and it was as Company Commander near Beaumont Hamel that he was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, July 1st 1916. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918 |
