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Princess Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy Asquith
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Notes from: http://www.buriton.org.uk/bhb/infosheet05.htm
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The Bonham-Carter family, long involved in politics, trade and service to the country, owned the Buriton estate for about 130 years. Their double-barrelled surname did not come from a marriage, but had its origins in a pub - or, more accurately, in brewing.
Pike’s Brewery, which was founded in 1719 (subsequently taken over by Brickwoods in 1911 and, in turn, by Whitbread’s in 1973), was owned by William Pike. He died in 1777 and the responsibility for the brewery passed to his two daughters: Ann and Susanna. Ann (1716-1787) had married John Bonham (1705-1771) and Susanna (1737-1761) had married John Carter II (1715-1794) - a portent of the coming joint family name.
The Bonhams and the Carters were both prominent families in the county. The Bonhams were landowners in Hampshire, living in Warnford and West Meon since the seventeenth century (and before that in Wiltshire). The Carters were a prominent Portsmouth family They had lived there as early as the sixteenth century. John Carter I lived from 1672 to 1732 and was a shipwright, timber merchant and a burgess of Portsmouth. His son John, who married Susanna Pike, was mayor of Portsmouth seven times.
John Bonham married Ann Pike in 1747 and they lived in Castle House in Petersfield Market Square (where the Post Office is now). They had four children but neither of the two boys (Henry: 1749-1800 and Thomas: 1754-1826) ever married and the two daughters produced no heirs. Thomas managed the brewery for some years but it was Henry who bought the Buriton Estate in 1798 from Lord Stawell who had bought it from the historian Edward Gibbon.
Susanna’s husband, John Carter II, also managed the brewery for a time and, in his turn, so did their son John Carter III (John and Susanna had four other children). John III (1741-1808), who was knighted by George III, had six children, the only son being named, again, John.
It was this John Carter (John Carter IV; 1788-1838) who, in the absence of any heirs in the Bonham family, inherited an estate of several thousand acres around Buriton, Petersfield and West Meon in 1826. On 17 February 1827 he changed his name by Royal License to John Bonham-Carter I to testify his “esteem and regard” for his late cousin. And thus we move into the Bonham-Carter dynasty.
John Bonham-Carter I never lived at Buriton. He married Joanna Smith and they raised their family at Castle House in Petersfield but, as he was MP for Portsmouth for over twenty years (1816-1838), they often preferred to live in Westminster to be near Parliament. John and Joanna had ten children but, again, none lived at Buriton Manor. Their eldest, John Bonham-Carter II (Jack), followed his father into politics becoming MP for Winchester and a junior minister in the first Gladstone administration. He and his family lived briefly at Castle House but, in 1858, they built an impressive mansion at Adhurst St Mary, Sheet. Jack had nine children and when he died in 1884 his heir was his son John Bonham-Carter III. He died in 1905 and the Buriton estate then passed to Jack’s other son Lothian.
Lothian Bonham-Carter (1858-1927), grandson of John Bonham-Carter I, was the first to live in Buriton. He had Buriton House built in about 1910/1911 as his wife reputedly did not like living in the Manor House which was, in those days, still a working farm. Lothian had two sons, Colonel A L (Algernon Lothian) Bonham-Carter DSO (born 1888) and Admiral Sir Stuart Bonham-Carter (born 1889), and a daughter who became Mrs Tomlinson.
As well as running the Manor Farm with its renowned hop cultivation and regular pheasant and rabbit shoots, the family also had a prolific sporting reputation. Lothian Bonham-Carter played cricket for Hampshire and his uncle Henry and aunt Sibella had twelve children, eleven of them boys - enough to field a cricket team; which is exactly what they did !
The Bonham-Carter XI, or The Old Caravan, as it was picturesquely known, flourished during the latter part of the 19th century. By the turn of the century, three of the brothers had been replaced by younger Bonham-Carter cousins (including Lothian), but they were still very much a force to be reckoned with. On one memorable occasion in the early 1900s they beat Petersfield by 96 runs. A local newspaper report records that Lothian opened the batting and scored 54. The team reached a total of 261 and then dismissed Petersfield for 165. The Bonham-Carter scorers were : Lothian 54, Charles 20, Norman 17, Octavius 81 (not out), Reginald 4, John 37, Edgar 22, Maurice 3, Walter 0, Frederick 1, Alfred 0 (with 22 extras).
Lothian died in 1925 and the Buriton estate passed to his son Algernon although large tracts of downland were taken over by the Forestry Commission in 1927 to cover death duties. Algie, ‘the Colonel’, loved the centuries old Manor House and spent time restoring and renovating it. He sold Buriton House. The rest of the estate was sold after he died in 1957. The Colonel is remembered as “a lovely man”. He was cremated and his ashes spread in Pillmead Covers by his brother Admiral Sir Stuart and his Head Gamekeeper George Legg senior.
Vice Admiral Sir Stuart S Bonham Carter KCB, CVO, DSO died at the age of 83. He had served with distinction in action in both world wars. In 1918 he was among the volunteers selected to take part in the raid on Zeebrugge on St George’s day. In this operation he was in charge of the blockship Intrepid, which he successfully sank in the Bruges canal, escaping with another officer and four petty officers in a Carley raft to be picked up later by a motor launch. Mary Piggott, who died in 1998, recalls that when the Admiral came back after Zeebrugge, all the schoolchildren were marched up to Buriton House and lined both sides of the entrance. All had flags and sang ‘Heart of Oak’. Apparently the Admiral was so tired that he probably couldn’t have cared less about anybody and just went straight past into the house!
Florence Nightingale was a relative of the Bonham-Carter family with the connection going back to John Bonham-Carter I. Helena Bonham-Carter, the famous actress, is the great, great granddaughter of John Bonham-Carter I. Her grandfather was Maurice who played in the cricket match against Petersfield but only scored 3 runs. So, whilst none of the famous females appear to be directly connected to Buriton, at least we had one of the best cricketers !