Christopher Bonham-Carter
{{Short description|Royal Navy Rear Admiral (1907–1975)}}
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2nd Frigate Squadron (1949–51)
|battles= Second World War
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Companion of the Order of the Bath
Mentioned in Despatches
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Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Douglas Bonham-Carter, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCVO|CB}} (3 November 1907 – 3 June 1975)"Sir Christopher Douglas Bonham-Carter, Obituary", The Times, Thursday, 5 June 1975; pg. 16; Issue 59414; col F was a Royal Navy officer and Treasurer to the Duke of Edinburgh from 1959 to 1970.
Treasurer to the Duke of Edinburgh
In 1959 Bonham-Carter joined the Household of the Duke of Edinburgh as Treasurer to the Duke of Edinburgh. In 1970 he was appointed Private Secretary, and retired from both positions at the end of that year. In 1961, during a Royal visit to Nepal, he was credited with sharing a tiger kill with Sir Michael Adeane in a royal tiger hunt. The task of shooting the tiger had fallen to him after the Queen had declined, the Duke of Edinburgh had been unable to do so due to having his trigger finger in a splint, and the then Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home had missed twice.{{cite magazine |author=Lynam, Ruth |year=1961 |title=Tiger hunt and ring around a rhino |magazine=Life |volume=50 |issue=12 |pages=51–54 |publisher=Time Inc |issn=0024-3019}}
He was appointed Extra Equerry in 1970. From 1971 until his death he was also Secretary and Registrar of the Order of Merit.
Bonham-Carter was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1959, and a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1962. He was advanced to Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1968, and Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1970.
He is the grandfather of actor Crispin Bonham-Carter.
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