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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person 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.[1]

He grew up Hamburg, Germany, which is considered to be his hometown.[2][3] He changed his surname to Hambro upon moving to Copenhagen in 1778.[2][3] Although he wanted to be named Hamburg, the registrar misspelt his name, thus renaming him Calmer Hambro.[2][3]

Career

Hambro took over his father-in-law's business in Copenhagen in 1779.[4] In the Danish census 1801, he was registered living as a handelsman (merchant) in the house Store Købmagergade No. 96 in the Frimands Kvarter neighbourhood, together with his wife and his two sons.[5] He later became a banker to the King of Denmark.[3]

Personal life

Hambro married a cousin, Thobe (Dorothea) Levy (1756-1820), the daughter of Isach Joseph Levi, in Copenhagen in 1778.[1][2][3] They had three sons and one daughter, the merchant and banker Joseph Hambro (1780-1848)[4][6] and his younger twin brothers Carl Simon and Eduard Isaac (born in 1782), the latter moved to Bergen establishing himself as a merchant, and sister Hanne Sophie.[7]Шаблон:Circular reference[5]

Death

He died in 1806 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Legacy

His grandson, Carl Joachim Hambro (180-1877) moved to London, England, where he founded the Hambros Bank in 1839.[2][8][9]

References

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  1. 1,0 1,1 Andrew St George, ‘Hambro, Baron Carl Joachim (1807–1877)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 6 May 2015
  2. 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 Lord Hambro, The Daily Telegraph, 9 November 2002
  3. 3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3 3,4 Derek Taylor, Newcomers who built Britain’s future, The Jewish Chronicle, January 22, 2013
  4. 4,0 4,1 Шаблон:Cite encyclopedia
  5. 5,0 5,1 Census 1801, Rentekammeret Danske Afdeling, Dansk-Norsk Tabelkontor. Folketælling 1801. Rigsarkivet Copenhagen. Retrieved August 28, 2020
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