Margaret Bonham

Margaret Bonham (1913–1991) was a British short-story writer born in London. Bonham's works include the short story "The English Lesson" and the books The Casino (1948) and The House Across the River (1951). Biography Bonham attended Wimbledon High School in London growing up, but would go on to spend most of her lifetime in the countryside. Bonham was married three times. Her first marriage, to Walter Griffith, ended "disastrously" when she was "very young". Her second marriage was to Deryck Bazalgette, the great-grandson of Sir Joseph Bazalgette. The two met when they both attended the Peace Pledge Union, a pacifist, anti-war organization and as conscientious objectors established a commune in Devon. Bonham gave birth to two children, Cary and Charles. They divorced after the Second World War. After her divorce from Bazalgette, she married Sir Charles Kimber, 3rd Baronet, another conscientious objector who ran a Devon market garden. Bonham and Kimber met when the secretary of the Labour Party in Totnes was canvassing Devon. The two were said to have shared a love of "rally driving and good living" and lived on "a covered lifeboat on Port Meadow, Oxford". Kimber succeeded to his baronetcy in 1950 and the two moved into a large home in Oxfordshire. The couple had a son and daughter before divorcing in the early 1960s.