Jane Bonham Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury

Jane Bonham Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (born 20 October 1957) is a British Liberal Democrat politician, and member of the House of Lords.

Background

Family

Bonham Carter hails from the Bonham Carter family. Her great-grandfather was H. H. Asquith, the former Prime Minister, and her grandparents were Maurice Bonham Carter and Violet Bonham Carter. Her father Mark Bonham Carter was a Liberal MP before becoming a Liberal Democrat Life Peer. Her aunt Laura Bonham Carter married Jo Grimond, who was to become Leader of the Liberal Party. Her family is the only example so far where three generations have received Life Peerages under the Life Peerages Act 1958.The titles of the three judges Baron Russell of Killowen were created under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act of 1876.
Her maternal grandfather is the American publisher Condé Nast.

In 2008 she was reported to be the partner of Baron Tim Razzall. Bonham Carter has declared the relationship in the House of Lords Register of Interests.

Her cousins include the actress Helena Bonham Carter and fellow Liberal Democrat parliamentarian Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith.

Education

Bonham-Carter was educated at St. Paul's Girls' School, an independent school in Brook Green, Hammersmith, west London, and at University College London.

Career

Bonham-Carter worked in television before being raised to the peerage, spending time at both the BBC and Channel 4, producing programmes such as ''Panorama'', ''Newsnight'' and ''A Week In Politics''.

In 1996 she became the Liberal Democrats' Director of Communications, a role she held through the 1997 election before returning to a career in television as an independent producer at Brook Lapping Productions, where she produced a number of documentaries for Channel 4, the BBC
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