Everard Hambro
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| Born | Everard Alexander Hambro 11 April 1842 |
| Died | 26 February 1925 (aged 82) Hayes, Kent, England |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Banker |
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| Children | Charles Eric Hambro Harold Everard Hambro Angus Valdemar Hambro Violet Mary Hambro Ronald Olaf Hambro |
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| Relatives | Calmer Hambro (paternal great-grandfather) Joseph Hambro (paternal grandfather) |
Sir Everard Alexander Hambro KCVO (11 April 1842 – 26 February 1925) was a British banker and philanthropist.
Early life
[edit]Everard Hambro was born 11 April 1842 in Willesden, London.[1][2] His father, Carl Joachim Hambro, was a Danish immigrant who founded the Hambros Bank in London in 1839.[1] His paternal grandfather, Joseph Hambro, was a Danish banker and political advisor. His paternal great-grandfather, Calmer Hambro, was a Danish merchant and banker. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge.[1]
Career
[edit]Hambro started his career at the family business, Hambros Bank, in 1869.[1] He served on the board of directors of the Bank of England from 1879 to 1925.[1] He helped save Barings Bank in 1891.[3] As a member of the Fowler Committee, Everard Hambro submitted a separate note proposing the setting up of a state bank in India along the lines of the Bank of England and Bank of France.[4][5]
Personal life
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Hambro was married twice. He married Gertrude Mary Stuart in 1866. They resided at Hayes Place, Hayes, Kent, and at Milton Abbey in Milton, Dorset.[1] He married, secondly, in 1911, to Ebba Harline d'Iberville Le Moyne Whyte.[1]
They had five children:
- Sir Charles Eric Hambro.[1]
- Lt.-Col. Harold Everard Hambro.[1]
- Angus Valdemar Hambro.[1]
- Violet Mary Hambro; married Everard Martin Smith and her elder son was Eric Martin Smith, MP.[1]
- Ronald Olaf Hambro.[1]
Death
[edit]Hambro died on 26 February 1925, aged 82, at Hayes, Kent.[1][2] and is buried at St. Mary the Virgin Church there.
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Charles Mosley (ed.), Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage, 1999, vol. 1, p. 1277
- 1 2 Andrew St George, "Hambro, Sir Everard Alexander (1842–1925)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, first published 2004.
- ↑ Youssef Cassis, City Bankers: 1890–1914, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994, p. 42
- ↑ Bakhtiar Dadabhoy, Barons of Banking, Random House India, 2013
- ↑ Everard Hambro's Central Bank Proposal
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- 1842 births
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- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Bankers from London
- Businesspeople from Dorset
- Businesspeople from the London Borough of Brent
- Danish barons
- English Jews
- English people of Danish descent
- Hambro family
- Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
- People associated with the Bank of England
- People from Willesden