Her father was H. H. Asquith (1852–1928), who served as Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916 and became the 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith in 1925.
His elder siblings were Cressida Ridley, Laura Grimond and Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter.
1880
He was born in Paddington, London, to Sir Maurice Bonham-Carter (1880–1960), a politician and cricketer, and his wife, Lady Violet Asquith (1887–1969), a political activist who was created Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury in 1964.
1929
Raymond Henry Bonham Carter (19 June 1929 – 17 January 2004) was a British banker and a member of the prominent Bonham Carter family.
1952
He was educated at St. Ronan's School, Hawkhurst, Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating in 1952.
He then went to Harvard.
1958
At various times, he held senior posts with the Bank of England (1958–1963), the International Monetary Fund (1961–1963), Warburgs (1963–1977), and the Department of Industry (1977–1979).
In 1958, he married Elena Propper de Callejón, daughter of Spanish diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejón (1895–1972) and his Franco-Austrian Jewish wife, Hélène Fould-Springer.
Together, they had three children:
1979
In 1979, he was diagnosed with a brain tumour, which was removed by surgery, but left him quadriplegic and partially blind.
