Raymond Bonham Carter

Raymond Henry Bonham Carter (19 June 1929 – 17 January 2004) was a leading British banker, and a member of a distinguished British theatrical and political family.

Raymond Henry Bonham Carter was born on 19 June 1929 to Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury (1887–1969), a British political activist and daughter of the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith the 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1852–1928), and Sir Maurice Bonham Carter (1880–1960), a politician and cricketer.

Bonham Carter was educated at St. Ronan's School, Hawkhurst, Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating in 1952. He then went to Harvard.

At various times, he held senior posts with the Bank of England (1958–1963), the International Monetary Fund (1961–1963), Warburgs (1963–1977), and the Department of Industry (1977–1979).

In 1958, he married Elena Propper de Callejón, daughter of Spanish diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejón (1895–1972) and his Austrian-French Jewish wife Helene Fould-Springer. Together they had three children:

In 1979, he had a brain tumour which was removed by surgery but left him quadriplegic and partially blind.

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