He played one game for Hampshire when their matches were organised by the Hambledon Club.
He bought the Buriton estate in 1798 from Lord Stawell, who had previously acquired it from the historian Edward Gibbon.
[citation needed] Bonham was very fond of cricket and belonged to the Hambledon Club, the forerunner of Hampshire Cricket Club, where he was Steward six times and also Secretary.
[2] Bonham played one first-class match in 1778 as a gentleman amateur against Surrey.
Buriton passed to his brother Thomas who willed it on his own death to his cousin John Carter.