Family and Education
b. 6 Sept. 1785, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Francis Warren Bonham of Ballintagart, co. Kildare and Clongaffyn, co. Meath and 2nd w. Dorothea, da. of Edward Herbert, MP [I], of Muckross, co. Kerry. educ. privately; Corpus, Oxf. 1804; L. Inn 1808, called 1814. unm. suc. fa. to Clongaffyn 1810. d. 26 Apr. 1863.
Offices Held
Storekeeper of ordnance Dec. 1834 – Apr. 1835, Sept. 1841 – July 1845; spec. commr. of property tax 1853 – d.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Old Steyne, Brighton, Suss.; 16 Clarges Street, Piccadilly, Mdx.
Notes
See N. Gash, ‘F.R. Bonham: Conservative ’Political Secretary’, 1832-47’, EHR, lxiii (1948), 502-22; Politics in Age of Peel, 412-18, 464; and ‘Bonham and the Conservative Party, 1830-1857’, Pillars of Government, 108-35.
Volume
Commons 1820-1832
Web Title
BONHAM, Francis Robert (1785-1863)
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Oxford 1644
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Religion