Record

Code	DS/UK/123
Surname	Hambro
Forenames	Charles Jocelyn
PreTitle	Sir
Title	Knight
Dates	1897 - 1963
Epithet	Executive Director (1932 - 1933)
Activity	Educated at Eton, Hambro served in the Coldstream Guards during the First World War, winning a Military Cross. He was closely involved with the family firm, C.J. Hambro & Son (from 1921, Hambros Bank), and he was also a Director of the Great Western Railway (1928 - 1945). Hambro joined the Court of the Bank as a Non-Executive Director in 1928 and from 1932 to 1933 was an Executive Director. He refused the chance to succeed Montagu Norman as Governor in 1937. Hambro continued to serve as a Non-Executive Director until 1963.
Source	Oxford Dictionary of National Biography