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Henry (Carter, Henry Bonham) Bonham-Carter

1827–1921

Lawyer and company director. Called to the bar, 1853. Managing director of the Guardian Fire and Life Assurance Company, 1861–99. Collaborated with Florence Nightingale, his cousin, in the organisation of the Nightingale Training School. Married Sibella Charlotte, eldest daughter of George Warde Norman, in 1862.

Sources

ODNB

s.v. Carter, Henry Bonham.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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