Victor Bonham-Carter

Victor Bonham-Carter (13 December 1913 – 13 March 2007) was an English author, farmer and publisher.^[1] He was the son of General Sir Charles Bonham-Carter, who was Governor of Malta (1936-1940).

Works

• The English Village (1952)
• Exploring Parish Churches (1959)
• Farming the Land (1959)
• In a Liberal Tradition (1960)
• Soldier True: the life and times of Field-Marshal Sir William Robertson (1965), published in America as The Strategy of Victory 1914-1918
• Surgeon in the Crimea (1969; collection of letters by George Lawson during the Crimean War)
• The Survival of the English Countryside (1971)
• Authors by Profession: Volume One (1978)
• Authors by Profession: Volume Two (1984)
• Exmoor Writers (1987)
• The Essence of Exmoor (1991)
• What Countryman, Sir? (1996; autobiography)
• A Filthy Barren Ground (1998; edited letters of Rev William Thornton)

Notes

1. Obituary: Victor Bonham-Carter, The Daily Telegraph (20 March 2007).