Editing Cosmo Bonsor (section)

==Biography==
Bonsor was born in [[Polesden Lacey]] on 2 September 1848, the son of Joseph Bonsor.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RI81AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA261&ci=54%2C591%2C433%2C181 |title=Our New President |journal=Guy's Hospital Gazette |volume=XXIV |number=575 |date=1910-07-09 |access-date=2023-10-04 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M2VHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA159&ci=29%2C1169%2C393%2C187 |title=Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-Armour |editor-first=Arthur Charles |editor-last=Fox-Davies |editor-link=Arthur Charles Fox-Davies |publisher=T. C. & E. C. Jack |place=London |page=159 |date=1910 |access-date=2023-10-04 |via=Google Books}}</ref> He was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]] and with his father and brother became a partner in the brewing firm of Combe & Co. He was a [[List of directors of the Bank of England|director of the Bank of England]], and a Governor of [[Guy's Hospital]].<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1886londuoft Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886]</ref>

Bonsor married Emily Gertrude Fellowes in 1872. She died in London on 18 July 1882, and he remarried to Mabel Grace Brand on 3 March 1886.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000408/18820727/133/0020 |title=Deaths |newspaper=Dorset County Chronicle |page=20 |date=1882-07-27 |access-date=2023-10-04 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000334/18860306/023/0005 |title=Marriage of Mr. Cosmo Bonsor M.P. and Miss Brand |newspaper=Surrey Mirror |page=5 |date=1886-03-06 |access-date=2023-10-04 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

In 1885 Bonsor was elected [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|M.P.]] for [[Wimbledon (UK Parliament constituency)|Wimbledon]] and held the seat until 1900.<ref>{{hansard-contribs | mr-henry-bonsor | Henry Bonsor }}</ref> Also in 1885, Bonsor purchased the estate of [[Kingswood, Surrey|Kingswood Warren]], Surrey from Sir John Cradock Hartopp and lived there until 1906 when he put it on the market because of the rising cost of maintenance.<ref name=Kingswood>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/about/history/previousowners.shtml |title=Article on BBC history |access-date=5 March 2008 |archive-date=11 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111112428/http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/about/history/previousowners.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1898 Bonsor organised the brewery amalgamation to form [[Watney Combe & Reid]], of which he remained chairman until 1928.

[[File:Mabel Grace Brand (1864–1944) and Henry Cosmo Orme Bonsor (1848–1929).png|thumb|right|200px|Mabel and Cosmo Bonsor in 1898]]

Bonsor was created a [[baronet]] on 26 January 1925.<ref>{{Rayment-bt|date=March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33015 |date=27 January 1925 |page=590}}</ref> He died four years later at the age of 81 in [[Nice]]. He was buried in St Andrew's churchyard. Bonsor was a public benefactor and was loved locally for his kindness and generosity to all.<ref name=Kingswood/> His son Reginald succeeded to the baronetcy.