Carl Joachim Hambro (banker)

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Carl Joachim Hambro
Born(1807-11-23)23 November 1807
Copenhagen, Denmark
Died27 November 1877(1877-11-27) (aged 70)
NationalityDanish
OccupationBanker
Spouses
  • Caroline Gostenhofer
  • Eliza Greathead
ChildrenPercival Hambro
Charles Eric Hambro
(grandson)
Milton Abbey, late 1800s

Baron Carl Joachim Hambro (23 November 1807 – 27 November 1877) was a Danish banker. He was the founder of

investment banks
.

Early life

Carl Joachim Hambro was born in 1807 in Copenhagen, Denmark.[1] He was the son of Marianne von Halle and Joseph Hambro (1780–1848). The family lineage can be traced to Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein, in the 1720s. His paternal grandfather Calmer Hambro (1747–1806) had migrated to Copenhagen where he became a trade merchant in 1779.[2] In 1814, aged seven, Carl Hambro was sent to live with Danish zoology professor Johan Reinhardt and his wife. In 1822, Hambro, who was born into a Jewish family, was baptised and confirmed into the Christian religion at the behest of his foster parents.[1]

Career

Hambro left school in 1824 and worked in

Frederik VII of Denmark in 1851.[1]

Personal life

In 1833, he married Caroline Gostenhofer and together they went on to have three sons: Charles J. T. Hambro, Percival Hambro and Everard Hambro. In 1852 he acquired Milton Abbey in Dorset and made it his home.[3] In 1861 Hambro married, secondly, Eliza Frances Turner (1824/25-1919),[4] widow of Hervey Harris Greathe(a)d (1817-1857), BCS, political agent, Commissioner of Meerut, and one of the daughters of Thomas Jacob Turner, BCS, formerly of Worthy Park in Martyr Worthy parish, Hampshire. Hambro died at his home at Milton Abbey in 1877.[1]

Legacy

One grandson,

Charles Eric Hambro, inherited Hambro's Bank from Everard, while another, Major General Sir Percival Otway Hambro, joined the military, fighting in the Second Boer War in the 16th Lancers under Field Marshal General Lord Roberts, as well as taking part in the First World War.[1]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48884. Retrieved 13 June 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. Store norske leksikon
    (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 29 April 2011.
  3. ^ Milton Abbey School: History Archived 17 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ The Hambros, 1779-1979, by Bo Bramsen, Kathleen Wain, Kathleen Brown

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