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.

Bonham-Carter hails from a political family. Her great-grandfather was Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, the former Prime Minister, and her grandparents were Sir Maurice Bonham Carter and Lady Violet Bonham Carter (later Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, DBE). Her father The Lord Bonham-Carter was a Liberal MP before becoming a Liberal Democrat Life Peer. Her aunt Laura Bonham-Carter (The Lady Grimond of Firth) married Joseph "Jo" Grimond, Baron Grimond of Firth, formerly Leader of the Liberal Party. Her family's is the only example so far where three generations have received Life Peerages under the 1958 Life Peerages Act.

Her cousins include the actress Helena Bonham Carter and fellow LibDem parliamentarian the 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, OBE.

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

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