Fifth Generation  

48. Lt.Col. Richard Dudley DUPUIS [33960] (Frederick John²⁵, George Richard⁸, George John (Rev)², George (Rev)¹) was born in Dec 1898 in Warlaby Yorkshire England.

Richard married May Milne Brewer JOBBENS [33981] [MRIN: 12544].

+ 65 M    i. Richard DUPUIS

+ 66 F    ii. Joan DUPUIS

52. Margaret SYKES [81685] (Laura DUPUIS²⁶, George Richard⁸, George John (Rev)², George (Rev)¹) was born in 1911 in Cluny Alberta Canada and died in 1991 at age 80.

Margaret married Hugh BROWN [81686] [MRIN: 26916].

   67 F    i. Madeline BROWN

   68 M    ii. Guy BROWN

+ 69 M    iii. Donald BROWN

   70 F    iv. Rosemary BROWN

   71 F    v. Barbara BROWN

   72 F    vi. Alice BROWN

54. Elisabeth GOLDIE [33747] (Bertha Mary DUPUIS³⁰, George Richard⁸, George John (Rev)², George (Rev)¹) was born on 17 Oct 1907 in Bourne End Buckinghamshire England and died on 07 Nov 1956 at age 49.

Elisabeth married Reginald Stanley MACHIN [33786] [MRIN: 12474], son of Sir Stanley MACHIN [33787] and Unknown, on 01 Aug 1929 in St Mary's Oatlands Weybridge Surrey England. Reginald was born on 16 Apr 1904 in Weybridge Surrey England and died on 03 Nov 1968 at age 64. Another name for Reginald was Rex.

+ 73 F    i. Jane MACHIN

55. Miriam GOLDIE [33748] (Bertha Mary DUPUIS³⁰, George Richard⁸, George John (Rev)², George (Rev)¹) was born on 20 Nov 1910 in Little Marlowe Buckinghamshire England and died on 25 Apr 2000 in Weybridge Surrey England at age 89.

Miriam married James Stuart WALLACE [33789] [MRIN: 12476], son of George Williamson WALLACE, Cb [33790] and Alice Mary Frances Bellingham WALKER [33791], in 1957. James was born on 06 Jul 1899 in Croydon Surrey England and died on 07 Dec 1972 in Weybridge Surrey England at age 73.

• Cremation: Brookwood Creamatorium Woking Surrey England.

   74 M    i. Timothy James WALLACE

Timothy married Jayne Linn MORRISON [33793] [MRIN: 12478], daughter of Donald Herbert MORRISON [33794] and Mary Katherine LAMBERT [33795].

56. John Barré Dupuis GOLDIE [33749] (Bertha Mary DUPUIS³⁰, George Richard⁸, George John (Rev)², George (Rev)¹) was born on 09 Nov 1919 in Hersham Surrey England and died on 21 Mar 1991 in Tollesbury Essex England at age 71.

John married Olivia Rosemary REED [33796] [MRIN: 12480].

   75 M    i. Andrew John Dupuis GOLDIE [33797] was born on 21 Nov 1948 in Adelaide SA Australia and died on 21 Apr 1972 in Tollesbury Essex England at age 23. The cause of his death was crushed by a boat that fell off scrubbing posts at.

+ 76 F    ii. Phillipa Rosamund GOLDIE

+ 77 F    iii. Carolynn Anne GOLDIE [33799] was born on 29 Feb 1956 in Tollesbury Essex England and died in Sep 2001 in Colchester Essex England at age 45.

+ 78 M    iv. Julian Marcus William GOLDIE

+ 79 M    v. Jonathan Kimble GOLDIE

57. Ivan Murray COBBOLD [33968] (John Dupuis COBBOLD³¹, Adela Harriette DUPUIS⁹, George John (Rev)², George (Rev)¹) was born in 1897 in Ipswich Suffolk England.

Ivan married Blanche CAVENDISH [33984] [MRIN: 12545] on 30 Apr 1919. Blanche was born on 02 Feb 1898.

   80 F    i. Pamela Maud COBBOLD

Pamela married Major William Vernon Hope JOHNSTONE [33989] [MRIN: 12546].

   81 F    ii. Jean COBBOLD

Jean married Roger Hewitt PAUL [33991] [MRIN: 12548].

   82 M    iii. John Cavendish COBBOLD

   83 M    iv. Patrick Mark COBBOLD [33988] was born in 1934 and died in 1994 at age 60.

58. Pamela COBBOLD [33969] (John Dupuis COBBOLD³¹, Adela Harriette DUPUIS⁹, George John (Rev)², George (Rev)¹) was born on 04 Mar 1900 in Ipswich Suffolk England and died in 1932 at age 32.

Pamela married Sir Charles Jocelyn HAMBRO, Kbe [33992] [MRIN: 12549] in 1919. Charles was born on 03 Oct 1897 in London England and died on 28 Aug 1963 in Regent's Park London England at age 65.

General Notes: Hambro, Sir Charles Jocelyn (1897-1963), merchant banker
by M. R. D. Foot, rev.
© Oxford University Press 2004-5 All rights reserved
Hambro, Sir Charles Jocelyn (1897-1963), merchant banker, was born on 3 October 1897 at 70 Prince's Gate, London, into a banking family of Danish origin, which had settled in Dorset and the City in the first half of the nineteenth century.
He was the elder son of Sir Eric Hambro (1872-1947), who was Conservative MP for the Wimbledon division of Surrey in 1900-07 and a partner in C. J. Hambro & Son, the family firm; his grandfather Sir Everard Alexander Hambro was a director of the Bank of England. His mother, Sybil Emily Martin Smith (d. 1942), was the daughter of Martin Ridley Smith of Warren House, Hayes, Kent, and his wife, Cecilia, daughter of Henry Stuart (1808-1880), of Montfort, Isle of Bute, a descendant of George III's prime minister John Stuart, third earl of Bute. In 1929 Hambro's parents were divorced and his father at once remarried. He had a younger brother and two sisters.
Hambro was at Eton College from 1910 to 1915; he was in the cricket team in 1914 and its captain in 1915, when he took seven wickets for six runs against Winchester College. He went straight from school to Sandhurst, and by the end of the year was an ensign in the Coldstream Guards. He survived two years on the western front, receiving the Military Cross for conspicuous bravery in action. On demobilization in 1919 Hambro married Pamela (1899/1900-1932), daughter of John Dupuis Cobbold DL, an Ipswich brewer, and his wife, Lady Evelyn, daughter of Charles Adolphus Murray, seventh earl of Dunmore; the couple had a son and three daughters.
Hambro went for a period of training to the Guaranty Trust Company in New York, where he and his wife lived with Harry Morgan, son of J. P. Morgan Jr. He then joined the family firm, of which he soon became secretary. He played an important part in its merger with the British Bank of Northern Commerce, which had been founded by, among others, the Stockholm banker Knut Wallenberg. The merger led to the establishment of Hambros Bank in 1921. In 1928, when only thirty, Hambro was elected a director of the Bank of England, and for a spell in 1932-3 he put all
other work aside in order to establish, under the direction of Montagu C. Norman, the bank's exchange control division, to deal with some of the consequences of the ending of the gold standard. In 1937 Hambro was offered the chance of succeeding Norman as governor of the Bank of England. He refused, in part because he was suffering from cancer of the tongue. An operation and radium treatment nevertheless allowed him to lead an extremely active life thereafter.
Hambro's commanding presence-he stood 6 feet 3 inches tall-and driving personality were backed by equal strength of character, loyalty, and charm. His wife died from pneumonia in 1932, and in 1936 he remarried. His second wife was Dorothy Helen, daughter of Alexander Mackay of Oban, whose first husband had been Marcus Wallenberg. The couple had a daughter.
Hambro made a notable impact in several spheres of work, particularly on the Great Western Railway, the most successful of the four great British railway companies. He became a director of it in 1928, and deputy chairman in 1934. From 1940 to 1945 he was nominally chairman, but war work took up much of his time.
On the outbreak of war with Germany in 1939, at the invitation of the government minister Ronald Cross, Hambro joined the Ministry of Economic Warfare. In August 1940 Cross's successor Hugh Dalton brought Hambro into the new secret service he was forming under the ministry's cover, the Special Operations Executive (SOE). SOE's purpose was to stimulate resistance in enemy-occupied territory, and Hambro's vigour, energy, and originality were invaluable to it. He began in charge of Scandinavia, and visited Sweden in November 1940. There he arranged for some highly successful smuggling of ball-bearings, and for some sabotage in Swedish harbours, which provoked difficulties with the Swedes. He also, through the anti-Nazi journalist Ebbe Munck, initiated contacts with resistance-minded Danes, which bore useful fruit in the summer of 1944. Dalton
thought highly of his Scandinavian work, and Hambro was created KBE in 1941.
From December 1940 to November 1941 Hambro added to his responsibilities the oversight of SOE's nascent French, Belgian, Dutch, and German sections, and from November 1941 for five months he was deputy head of the whole organization, in the rank of squadron leader, Royal Air Force. (Rank in SOE meant little.) He initiated an important development in January 1942, when he persuaded the Norwegians to help form an Anglo-Norwegian planning committee, from which several highly successful small operations derived, particularly the destruction on 27-8 February 1943 of the heavy-water plant at Vemork near Rjukan. When a further stock of heavy water was destroyed, in a separate operation, on its way to Germany, the Germans' search for an atomic bomb was utterly dislocated.
By that time Hambro had become the executive chief of SOE and promoted to air commodore. Dalton's successor, the third earl of Selborne, had appointed him in April 1942 to succeed Frank Nelson after Nelson's health had given way-on the ground that a man who could run the Great Western Railway could run anything.
An early and important task for Hambro was to arrange with Colonel William Donovan, his American opposite number, who visited London in June 1942, for cooperation between SOE and the American office of strategic services. Occasional rivalries should not obscure a great deal of close and rewarding interchange.
Hambro's multifarious acquaintances in the business world were often useful to SOE. During his seventeen months of leadership, this small but lively service was transformed from a body still struggling to establish its worth into a recognized, and often highly efficient, military tool. Hambro could not claim undue credit for this development, much of which arose from the general political and military course of the war, and some of it from the excellent work of his predecessor, Nelson, and from technicalities too abstruse even for him. A well-placed observer described him in retrospect as ‘always the gentleman, among the professionals’; he was certainly not a professional in the secret-service world.
Hambro and Selborne could not agree over a protracted dispute about control over SOE by the commander-in-chief, Middle East; and early in September 1943 Hambro had to resign. Another weighty post was soon found for him. He spent the last eighteen months of the war in Washington as head of the British raw materials mission: this was cover for supervising the exchange of information between the United Kingdom and the USA which led to the first man-made nuclear explosions in July and August 1945. It was he above all who persuaded the Belgians to re-start mining operations in the Congo, thus providing the essential raw material.
Hambro then returned to the City, and in conjunction with his nephew, Jocelyn Olaf Hambro, worked to increase British exports, particularly to the USA, through the Hambro Trading Corporation. Supported by his uncle (Ronald) Olaf Hambro, the third chairman of Hambros Bank, he re-established the foreign exchange department. Hambro was also prominent in the acrimonious takeover battle for British Aluminium in 1959-60. Although he failed to prevent the takeover, being out-manoeuvred by the redoubtable Sir Siegmund Warburg, Hambro learned important lessons from the affair-not least about the importance of good public relations and the need to brief the financial press during controversial sharedealing operations.
Hambro became chairman of Hambros Bank following the death of his uncle in 1961. Under his direction the business diversified, through the Union Corporation, into mining, among other interests. Hambro supported several charitable trusts, worked himself harder than he worked his subordinates, and escaped whenever he could to Dixton Manor near Cheltenham to shoot. He died from cancer and cardiac failure on 28 August 1963 at his London home, 72 North Gate, Regent's Park. He was survived by his second wife. Hambro died at the height of his powers and
reputation, having had a notable career as merchant banker and wartime soldier.
M. R. D. FOOT, rev.

+ 84 F    i. Cynthia HAMBRO

   85 F    ii. Diana HAMBRO

   86 F    iii. Pamela HAMBRO

   87 U    iv. HAMBRO