Edward William Bonham

Edward William Bonham, E. M. Delafield’s grandfather and Betty’s father, was born in Tabriz (then Persia, now in Iran) on 30 April 1844; his father Edward Walter was consul there at the time and had married Edward William’s mother, Elizabeth Floyd, in 1843. She survived the birth of her son but succumbed to typhus in December 1844. Father and son returned to England in 1845, and in 1846 Edward Walter was appointed Consul at Calais, a much easier base from which to educate his young son. Once ag...