Major Jocelyn Olaf Hambro MC was a British merchant banker, horse breeder and philanthropist.
22 Facts About Jocelyn Hambro
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Jocelyn Hambro was the chairman of Hambros Bank from 1965 to 1972.
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Jocelyn Olaf Hambro was born on 7 March 1919 on Upper Brook Street in Mayfair, London, the son of Winifred Emily Ridley-Smith and Olaf Hambro.
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Jocelyn Hambro's paternal great-grandfather, Carl Joachim Hambro, was a Danish-born immigrant to England who founded Hambros Bank in 1839.
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Jocelyn Hambro's father served as the Chairman of Hambros Bank from 1932 to 1960.
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Jocelyn Hambro grew up at Kidbrooke Park, Sussex, and Glendoe, Loch Ness, Scotland.
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Jocelyn Hambro was awarded an MC in 1944 for service with the Guards Armoured Division in Normandy but lost his left leg in August 1944.
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Jocelyn Hambro established franchises of General Motors and British Motor Corporation cars.
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Jocelyn Hambro served as the managing director of Hambros Bank, from 1947 to 1972, and as its chairman from 1965 to 1972.
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Jocelyn Hambro set up the Hambros Bank in Guernsey in 1967.
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Jocelyn Hambro served as the Chairman of Hambros, Ltd from 1970 to 1983, and its President from 1983 to 1986.
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Jocelyn Hambro sold Hambros Bank to the Societe Generale in 1986.
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Jocelyn Hambro was a co-founder of Hambro Life, an insurance company later known as Allied Dunbar, providing the seed money to start the firm.
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Jocelyn Hambro served as the Chairman of Phoenix Assurance Co from 1979 to 1985.
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Jocelyn Hambro served as its chairman from 1986 to 1994.
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Jocelyn Hambro was the namesake of J O Hambro Investment Management, a financial firm founded by his son Richard in 1986 and renamed Waverton Investment Management in 2014.
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Jocelyn Hambro bred Thoroughbreds at Waverton, his farm in Gloucestershire, and attended races at the Newmarket Racecourse.
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Jocelyn Hambro served as the chairman and trustee of the Henry Smith Charity.
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Jocelyn Hambro served on the Board of Governors of the Peabody Trust, a non-profit organisation which offers affordable housing to the disadvantaged.
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Jocelyn Hambro served as the chairman and treasurer of Blesma, The Limbless Veterans.
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Jocelyn Hambro endowed the Joint British Cancer Charities J O Hambro Award for the Businessman of the Year, which raises funds for Cancer Research UK, Imperial Cancer Research, the Marie Curie Cancer Care and the Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund.
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Jocelyn Hambro married two more times: first to Margaret Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe in 1976, secondly to Margaret, Countess Fortescue in 1988.