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...Liberal Party in England these days is pretty much a family affair. Mark Bonham-Carter, who lost his seat in Parliament by 2,000 votes in the last General Election, is a member of that dwindling family...
...grandson of Lord Asquith (Liberal Prime Minister from 1908-1916), Bonham-Carter was born in 1922, educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford; he spent 1947-48 as a Commonwealth Fellow at the University of Chicago. His mother, the redoubtable Lady Violet, has played a more than active role in British politics for years and was at one time chairman of the Party before the post was assumed by Mark Bonham-Carter's brother-in-law, Jo Grimmond...
...slightly-built, highly personable and precisely articulate man, Bonham-Carter has two absorbing interests--the Liberal Party and the Royal Opera, of which he is a director. In striking contrast to his present interests, he had an astonishing war record--he was taken prisoner with the Grenadier Guards of the Eighth Army in North Africa and managed to escape in Italy...
Since the war, Bonham-Carter has become strongly connected with the so-called living arts in Great Britain. In addition to his position on the board of directors of Covent Garden, he is a former member of the British Arts Council, and is at present a governor of the Royal Ballet School, and a Director of the Royal Ballet, with which group he toured through Russia last year...
...Liberal Party wants to see negotiations on Berlin, provided Western access rights are guaranteed," Bonham-Carter said...