Charles Hambro, Baron Hambro

Charles Eric Alexander Hambro, Baron Hambro ( born July 24, 1930; † 7 November 2002) was a British banker and politician.

Charles Hambro was the son of Charles Jocelyn Hambro and his first wife. He was the last director of Hambros Bank. Since his father was married to his second wife, the widow of a member of the Swedish banker Wallenberg family, Charles was able to live during the Second World War, first in Sweden and later in New York, before he returned in 1943 to England, where the Eton College visited. Charles Hambro served his two-year military service in the Coldstream Guards and entered 1952 as the sixth generation to run the family bank a.

While he remained on one side of the family tradition of business with loyal, he reformed the same time, the bank and led it so successfully by various crises in the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1980s, he tried the changing world of banking with the entry into the field of corporate finance to adapt, but in 1998 the bank that was no longer able to survive in an increasingly large banks dominated financial world was divided and sold to various other companies.

Charles Hambro served as treasurer for the finances of the Conservative Party from 1993 to 1997 and succeeded not only to reduce the debt of 19 million pounds, but to also provide the financing of the party to long-term remunerative basis.

In 1994, Charles Hambro as Lord Hambro of Dixton and Dumbleton for Life Peer and so appointed a member of the British House of Lords.

Charles Hambro was married twice, from his first marriage he had two sons and a daughter.

Swell

  • Lord Hambro, obituary in: The Daily Telegraph, November 9, 2002, accessed on January 6, 2014
  • Lord Hambro, obituary in: The Scotsman, November 12, 2002, accessed on January 6, 2014

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  • Life peer
  • Member of the House of Lords
  • Conservative Party Member
  • Politicians ( 20th century)
  • Entrepreneurs (United Kingdom)
  • Banker
  • Briton
  • Born in 1930
  • Died in 2002
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