Sir Everard Alexander Hambro (11 April 1842 – 26 February 1925) was a British banker and philanthropist.

Early life

Everard Hambro was born 11 April 1842 in

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. Charles Mosley (ed.), ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage'', Crans, Switzerland:

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, 1999, vol. 1, p. 1277Andrew St George
‘Hambro, Sir Everard Alexander (1842–1925)’
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', first published 2004 His father, Carl Joachim Hambro, was a Danish immigrant who founded the

Hambros Bank Hambros Bank was a British bank based in London. The Hambros bank was a specialist in Anglo-Scandinavian business with expertise in trade finance and investment banking, and was the sole banker to the Scandinavian kingdoms for many years. The Bank ...

in London in 1839. His paternal grandfather, Joseph Hambro, was a Danish banker and political advisor. His paternal great-grandfather,

Calmer Hambro Calmer Hambro (1747-1806) was a Danish merchant and banker. Early life Calmer Hambro was born as Calmer Joachim Levy in 1747 in Rendsburg, a town of Schleswig-Holstein in Denmark, later acquired by Prussia in the Second Schleswig War of 1864.Andr ...

, was a Danish merchant and banker. He graduated from

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Career

Hambro started his career at the family business, Hambros Bank, in 1869. He served on the board of directors of the Bank of England from 1879 to 1925. He helped save

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in 1891.Youssef Cassis, ''City Bankers: 1890–1914'', Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994, p. 4

/ref> 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.Bakhtiar Dadabhoy, ''Barons of Banking'', Random House India, 2013
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Personal life

He was married twice. He married Gertrude Mary Stuart in 1866. They resided at Milton Abbey School, Milton Abbey in

Milton, Dorset The former town of Milton (or Middleton) in Dorset, England was cleared by the local landowner, Joseph Damer, Lord Milton, in the 1770s. This was a result of a fashion amongst English landowners to improve the amenity of their homes by convertin ...

. They had five children: *Sir Charles Eric Hambro. *Lt.-Col. Harold Everard Hambro. * Angus Valdemar Hambro. *Violet Mary Hambro. * Ronald Olaf Hambro. Violet married Everard Martin Smith and her elder son was Eric Martin Smith, MP. Everard Hambro married Ebba Harline d'Iberville Le Moyne Whyte in 1911.

Death

He died on 26 February 1925.

References

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Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order