Lothian Bonham-Carter

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Lothian Bonham-Carter

| image =

| country = England

| fullname = Lothian George Bonham-Carter

| nickname =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1858|9|29|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Adhurst St Mary, Hampshire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1927|1|13|1858|9|29|df=yes}}

| death_place = Buriton, Hampshire, England

| heightft =

| heightinch =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Unknown-arm roundarm slow

| family = Stuart Bonham Carter (son)
Anthony Abdy (brother-in-law)

| club1 = Hampshire

| year1 = {{nowrap|1880–1885}}

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 8

| runs1 = 260

| bat avg1 = 17.33

| 100s/50s1 = –/2

| top score1 = 67

| deliveries1 = 108

| wickets1 = 2

| bowl avg1 = 31.50

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = 2/22

| catches/stumpings1 = 5/–

| date = 21 July

| year = 2011

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/9147.html Cricinfo

}}

Lothian George Bonham-Carter {{postnominal|JP}} (29 September 1858 – 1 January 1927) was an English first-class cricketer and businessman involved in brewing.

The son of the politician John Bonham-Carter, he was born in September 1858 at Adhurst St Mary, Hampshire. He was educated at Clifton College, where he played for and captained the college cricket team.{{cite book|title=Clifton College Annals and Register|first=Frank|last=Borwick|date=1912|page=56|publisher=J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd|location=Bristol|url=https://archive.org/details/b28994553|language=en}} Following the completion of his education, he enlisted into the Gloucestershire Engineer Volunteer Corps as a supernumerary sub-lieutenant in March 1876.{{London Gazette|issue=24305|date=14 March 1876|page=1901}} In July of that year, he attended the Royal Indian Engineering College (RIEC) on the Cooper's Hill Estate in Surrey. He joined the 1st Berkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps as a second lieutenant in November 1878,{{London Gazette|issue=24640|date=8 November 1878|page=5939}} before resigning his commission in June 1880.{{London Gazette|issue=24853|date=6 August 1880|page=3375}} In the month which followed his resignation, Bonham-Carter made his debut in first-class cricket for Hampshire against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's in 1880. A gap of four years would pass until he next played first-class cricket, with him making a further seven appearances in 1884 and 1885;{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6493/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Lothian Bonham-Carter|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=21 July 2011|url-access=subscription}} following the 1885 season, Hampshire lost their first-class status on the back of poor results. In eight first-class matches, he scored 260 runs at an average of 17.33; he made two half centuries, with a highest score of 67.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6493/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Lothian Bonham-Carter|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=21 July 2011|url-access=subscription}} He was known to play rugby union, having represented Surrey while at the RIEC.

For his living, Bonham-Carter was both a brewer and a sheep farmer.{{cite news|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS285940782/TTDA?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=41e442a6|title=Mr. L. G. Bonham Carter|newspaper=The Times|location=London|issue=44479|page=17|date=14 January 1927|access-date=20 February 2024|url-access=subscription|via=Gale}} As a brewer, he was a managing director of the Brickwood brewery in Portsmouth,{{cite book|title=The Directory of Directors|date=1927|page=160|publisher=Thomas Skinner & Company, Limited|location=London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VRMtAQAAMAAJ|language=en}} having previously assisted his family with their running of the Spicer brewery.{{cite book|title=The Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland|first=Alfred|last=Barnard|author-link=Alfred Barnard|date=1889|page=160|publisher= Sir J. Causton & Sons|location=Eastleigh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XFVHAAAAYAAJ|language=en}} He was also a justice of the peace and a former chairman of the East Hampshire Conservative Association. He married Emily Maud in 1882, with her predeceasing him. Their son, Stuart, was a first-class cricketer and a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy. Bonham-Carter died in January 1927, following a short illness at his Buriton House residence in Buriton, Hampshire.{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001973/19270114/152/0008|title=Buriton benefactor|newspaper=Hampshire Telegraph|location=Portsmouth|page=8|date=14 January 1927|access-date=20 February 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}} His estate passed to his eldest son, Algernon, with parts of it being sold to the Forestry Commission to cover death duties.