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{{Short description|British politician (1880–1960)}}
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| honorific_prefix = [[Sir]]
| name = Sir Maurice Bonham-Carter
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| image = Sir Maurice Bonham-Carter.jpg
| office = [[Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister|Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister]]
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'''Sir Maurice Bonham-Carter''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|KCB|KCVO}} (11 October 1880 – 7 June 1960)<ref>''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007''</ref> was an English [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal politician]], civil servant and [[first-class cricket]]er. He was [[H. H. Asquith]]'s [[Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister|Principal Private Secretary]] during Asquith's time as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Primeprime Ministerminister]] from 1910 to 1916 and later served in other government posts. He played [[cricket]] for [[Oxford University Cricket Club]] in the early 20th century. The actress [[Helena Bonham Carter]] is his granddaughter.
 
==Early life==
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==Career==
He was called to the [[Bar (legal)|Bar]] at [[Lincoln's Inn]] in 1909.<ref name=ca>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/27/27993/27993.html Maurice Bonham-Carter], CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-04-03.</ref> Between 1910 and 1916, Bonham-Carter served as the [[Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister]] [[H. H. Asquith]] during Asquith's tenure as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Primeprime Ministerminister]]. He travelled around the country with Asquith at the start of [[World War I]] and accompanied the Prime Minister when he visited the frontline at [[Ypres]] in 1915.<ref name=lewis96>Lewis P (2014) ''For Kent and Country'', p.96. Brighton: Reveille Press.</ref> He also visited Italy and, following the [[Easter Rising]], Ireland with Asquith in 1916. When Asquith was replaced as Primeprime Ministerminister by [[David Lloyd George]] in 1916, Bonham-Carter moved to become Assistant Secretary of the [[Ministry of Reconstruction]] and then, in 1918, joined the [[Air Ministry]] and [[Road Transport Board]].<ref name=ca /><ref name=lewis96 />
 
He became a leading figure in the [[Liberal Party (UK)|British Liberal Party]] and was a "keen supporter of new ideas and imaginative personalities."<ref name="times"/> He was a partner in a firm of [[stockbroker]]s.<ref name=ca /> He also held a number of business directorships with companies including: Aero Engine Ltd, Alpha Cement Ltd, Earls Court Ltd, [[Blackburn Aircraft|Blackburn and General Aircraft]], Hanworth Securities Ltd, [[Scophony|Scophony Ltd]], [[Power Jets|Power Jets Ltd]]<ref>British Library MS61931</ref> and was a partner with merchant bankers O.T. Falk and Partners, and stockbrokers Buckmaster & Moore.<ref>THE LONDON GAZETTE, 2 APRIL, 1926</ref>
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==Personal life==
On 30 November 1915, he was married to [[Violet Bonham Carter|Violet Asquith]], daughter of then-British prime minister [[H. H. Asquith]]. As she was later made a [[life peer]]ess, he and his wife were one of the few couples both of whom held titles in their own right. Together, they had four children:<ref name="times"/>
 
* [[The Honourable]] (Helen Laura) Cressida Bonham-Carter (1917–1998), who married Jasper Ridley.
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