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Joseph Hambro

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Nationality
  
Danish

Parents
  
Calmer Hambro

Religion
  
Judaism

Children
  
Carl Joachim Hambro

Spouse(s)
  
Marianne von Halle

Grandchildren
  
Everard Hambro

Name
  
Joseph Hambro


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Born
  
1780
Copenhagen, Denmark

Relatives
  
Wulf Levin von Halle (father-in-law) Everard Hambro (grandson)

Died
  
1840, London, United Kingdom

Great grandchildren
  
Olaf Hambro, Charles Eric Hambro

People also search for
  
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Joseph Hambro (4 November 1780 – 3 October 1840) was a Danish merchant, banker and political advisor.

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Early life

Joseph Hambro was born in 1780 in Copenhagen, Denmark. His father, Calmer Hambro, was a silk and textile merchant. At the age of 17, Hambro came to Hamburg where he received his education at Fürst, Haller & Co..

Career

Hambro was a merchant and banker. In 1800, he joined his father's bank and renamed it C. J. Hambro & Son. Under his leadership, the bank gave loans to the Danish government from 1821 to 1827.

In circa. 1930, he acquired Bodenhoffs Plads in Christianshavn, from then on known as Hambros Plads, establishing both a rice mill with Denmark's first steam engine, the country's first canned food factory and a bakery at the site.

Hambro became an advisor to Johan Sigismund von Møsting, who served as the Danish Minister of Finance.

Personal life

He was married to Marianne von Halle (1786–1838), the daughter of Wulf Levin von Halle, a merchant from Copenhagen. They had a son, Carl Joachim Hambro, who moved to London, England, where he founded the Hambros Bank in 1839.

Death

He died in 1840 in London, where he had moved earlier that year.

References

Joseph Hambro Wikipedia