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{{Short description|English cricketer, British Army officer and civil servant (1904–1985)}}
{{British barrelled name|Bonham Carter|Carter}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2023}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
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| country = England
| full_name = Jocelyn Henry Bonham-Carter
| nickname =
| birth_date = 28 January 1904
| birth_place = [[Bromley]], [[Kent]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1985|9|3|1904|1|28|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[High Wycombe]], [[Buckinghamshire]], England
| heightft =
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| batting = Unknown
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| family =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1927/28
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 3
| bat avg1 = 3.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 3
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–
| date = 19 May
| year = 2023
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/jocelyn-bonham-carter-27056 ESPNcricinfo
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'''Jocelyn Henry Bonham-Carter''' {{postnominal|OBE}} (28 January 1904 – 3 September 1985) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er, [[British Army]] officer and civil servant.

The son of Herman Bonham-Carter,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001851/19370901/042/0046|title=Getting Married: The Bystander's Review of Weddings and Engagements|work=[[Bystander (magazine)|The Bystander]]|location=London|page=46|date=1 September 1937|access-date=19 May 2023|url-access=subscription|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> he was born at [[Bromley]] in January 1904. He was educated at the [[Britannia Royal Naval College]], before matriculating to [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge|Caius College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=45ZHAAAAYAAJ|title=The Cambridge University Calendar|publisher=J. & J. Deighton|page=268|date=1922}}</ref> Bonham-Carter joined the Royal Tank Corps (later the [[Royal Tank Regiment]]) as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] following the completion of his studies, before resigning his commission in June 1926.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33174|date=22 June 1926|page=4041}}</ref> Travelling to [[British India]], he made a single appearance in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Indians cricket team|Indians]] at [[M. A. Chidambaram Stadium|Madras]] in the 1927–28 [[Madras Presidency Match]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13007/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Jocelyn Bonham-Carter|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=19 May 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting once in the match, he was dismissed for 3 runs in the Europeans first innings by [[C. R. Ganapathy]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/12/12568.html|title=Europeans v Indians, Madras Presidency Match 1927/28|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=19 May 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Bonham-Carter rejoined the [[British Army]] in December 1932, when he was appointed to the [[Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment]] with the rank of [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33895|date=23 December 1932|page=8224}}</ref> He served in the [[Second World War]] with the [[Middlesex Regiment]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34698|date=29 September 1939|page=6646|supp=y}}</ref> Following the war, he was employed with the [[Foreign Office]] as a Grade 1 Conference Officer. For his service with the Foreign Office, he was made an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in the [[1953 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=38732|date=30 December 1952|page=13|supp=y}}</ref> He remained an officer with the Middlesex Regiment as part of the [[Army Reserve (United Kingdom)|Territorial Reserve]], gaining his [[Territorial Decoration]] whilst holding the rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in June 1954.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=40195|date=1 June 1954|page=3322|supp=y}}</ref> Bonham-Carter died at [[High Wycombe]] in September 1985. He had been married to Maud Leslie Athill since 1939, in a wedding which was presided over by the [[Leslie Lang|Bishop of Woolwich]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001851/19370901/042/0046|title=Fashionable and Personal|work=[[Kent and Sussex Courier]]|location=Royal Tunbridge Wells|page=10|date=23 June 1939|access-date=19 May 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=27056}}

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[[Category:Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment officers]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War II]]
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[[Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire]]
[[Category:Bonham Carter family|Jocelyn]]
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[[Category:20th-century English civil servants]]

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