Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter

[2][1] 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,[3] before returning to finish the last year of his course at Oxford.Grimond was personally hopeful that the articulate Bonham-Carter would be his designated successor, but it was not to be: at the 1959 general election, just 18 months after his victory, he narrowly lost the seat to the Conservatives.He continued to work as a prominent member of the Collins firm, becoming close friends with Roy Jenkins (reportedly his wife's lover) and serving as his literary agent.His last campaign focused on granting British citizenship to ethnic minorities in Hong Kong, a measure that was only passed after his death.
The Right HonourableMember of the House of LordsLord TemporalLife PeerageMember of ParliamentTorringtonGeorge LambertPercy BrowneMaryleboneSalernoLiberalLiberal DemocratsHelena Bonham CarterWinchester CollegeAlma materBalliol College, OxfordBritish ArmyGrenadier GuardsMentioned in dispatchesEnglishpublisherpoliticianBonham-Carter familylife peerSir Maurice Bonham-CarterLady Violet AsquithPrime MinisterH. H. AsquithRaymondSecond World WarBarnstaple1945 general electionUniversity of ChicagoCollinsBaron St JustCondé NastJo GrimondConservative PartySuez CrisisTorrington by-election1959 general election1964 general electionRoy JenkinsRace Relations BoardCommunity Relations CommissionRoyal Opera HouseRoyal BalletMargaret ThatcherWiltshireHong Kongheart attackStockton, WiltshireCoronet of a BaronBonham Carter familyThe TimesThe London GazetteField, FrankThe IndependentHansardNational Portrait Gallery, LondonParliament of the United KingdomHon. George Lambert