Charles Joseph Theophilus Hambro (2 October 1834 – 11 April 1891) was a British

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politician. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark but was a British Subject. Hambro was the eldest son of Carl Joachim Hambro, Baron Hambro of Milton Abbey, Dorset and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was

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at the Inner Temple in 1860. He held the offices of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of Dorset and of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Dorset.Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, page 1277 He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis at the 1868 general election, but lost the seat at the 1874 general election. He gained the rank of Colonel in the service of the Dorset Yeomanry Cavalry. He held the office of High Sheriff of Dorset in 1882. Hambro did not stand for Parliament again until the 1885 general election, when he narrowly failed to win the newly created Southern division of Dorset (his Liberal opponent had a majority of only 0.6% of the votes). However he won the seat at the 1886 general election, and held it until his death in 1891 aged 56. He inherited and lived at Milton Abbey.

Family

He married Susan Amelia Yorke, youngest daughter of the Honorable and Venerable Rev. Henry Reginald Yorke, Archdeacon of Huntingdon on the 15 Dec 1857 in the Church of St Andrew, Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, England
They had two daughters :
Agneta Josephine (Hambro) de Sales La Terrierre (1864 - 1939).
Carolina Susan (Hambro) Parry-Okeden (1859 -1931).

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* 1834 births 1891 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Members of the Inner Temple Deputy lieutenants of Dorset Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1868–1874 UK MPs 1886–1892 High sheriffs of Dorset Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry officers British expatriates in Denmark British people of Danish descent British people of German-Jewish descent {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1830s-stub