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John Bonham Carter (1817–1884)

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John Bonham-Carter

John Bonham-Carter (13 October 1817 in Portsmouth – 26 November 1884) was an English Liberal politician.

Bonham-Carter was the son of the Portsmouth Member of Parliament (MP) John Bonham-Carter, and educated at Clifton College & Trinity College, Cambridge. From 1847 to 1874 he was Liberal Party 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.

He was a member of the Photographic Society of London, later the Royal Photographic Society, from 1853 until his death. His son, Lothian, played first-class cricket for Hampshire.

He died in Petersfield, Hampshire in 1884.

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