His mother was Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a British political activist and daughter of the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Knight of the Order of the Garter, Personal Computer, KC, and his father was Sir Maurice Bonham Carter, a politician and cricketer.
Magdalen College; Harvard University. Winchester College.
He was educated at Saint Ronan"s School, Hawkhurst, Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating in 1952. He then went to Harvard.
At various times he held senior posts with the Bank of England (1958–1963), the International Monetary Fund (1961–1963), Warburgs (1963–1977), and the Department of Industry (1977–1979). In 1979, he had a brain tumour which was removed by surgery but left him quadriplegic and partially blind.
