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Victor Bonham-Carter (13 December 1913 – 13 March 2007) was an English author, farmer and publisher.


Early life

He was the son of General Sir
Charles Bonham-Carter General Sir Charles Bonham-Carter, (25 February 1876 – 21 October 1955) was a British Army officer and later Governor of Malta. Early life Bonham-Carter was born on 25 February 1876 in Kensington, London, the ninth of eleven children of Henr ...
, who was Governor of
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(1936–1940), and he was educated at
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and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he studied modern languages and
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. After graduating, he worked for ''The Countryman'' and from 1937 he was a director of School Prints Ltd. During the
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, Bonham-Carter joined the
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and was seconded to the Intelligence Corps, which was based in the
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. He returned to School Prints after the war, where he remained until 1960.Obituary: Victor Bonham-Carter
, ''The Daily Telegraph'' (20 March 2007), retrieved 12 January 2020.


Career

He was appointed the historian of
Dartington Hall Dartington Hall in Dartington, near Totnes, Devon, England, is an historic house and country estate of dating from medieval times. The group of late 14th century buildings are Grade I listed; described in Pevsner's Buildings of England as "on ...
,
Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devo ...
and his findings were published in ''Dartington Hall'' (1958), which he co-authored with W. B. Curry. Bonham-Carter managed a farm in
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and he wrote extensively on rural affairs. His 1952 work, ''The English Village'', explored the history of the
village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...
. He also composed a textbook for secondary school pupils, ''Farming the Land'' (1959). ''The Survival of the Countryside'' demonstrated how changes in the use of land damaged the countryside. During 1963–64 he was a scriptwriter for the
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television series ''
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''. He also wrote on military history, including biographies of Field-Marshal Sir William Robertson (1965) and George Lawson (1969), a surgeon in the
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. From 1966 until 1982 he was secretary of the Royal Literary Fund and from 1971 until 1978 he was joint-secretary of the
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.


Personal life

Bonham-Carter married Audrey Stogdon in 1938 and they had two sons. They divorced in 1979 and in 1980 he married Cynthia Sanford. He died on 13 March 2007, aged 93.


Works

*''The English Village'' (1952) *''Exploring Parish Churches'' (1959) *''Farming the Land'' (1959) *''In a Liberal Tradition'' (1960) *''Soldier True: the life and times of Field-Marshal Sir William Robertson'' (1965), published in America as ''The Strategy of Victory 1914-1918'' *''Surgeon in the Crimea'' (1969; collection of letters by George Lawson during the
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) *''The Survival of the English Countryside'' (1971) *''Authors by Profession: Volume One'' (1978) *''Authors by Profession: Volume Two'' (1984) *''Exmoor Writers'' (1987) *''The Essence of Exmoor'' (1991) *''What Countryman, Sir? '' (1996; autobiography) *''A Filthy Barren Ground'' (1998; edited letters of Rev
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bonhham-Carter, Victor 1913 births 2007 deaths English biographers 20th-century British biographers Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature English autobiographers English nature writers English architecture writers 20th-century English farmers People educated at Winchester College Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge Royal Berkshire Regiment officers British Army personnel of World War II Intelligence Corps officers War Office personnel in World War II 21st-century English farmers