Olaf Hambro

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Captain Ronald Olaf Hambro (1 December 1885 – 25 April 1961) was a British merchant banker and the long-time chairman of Hambros Bank. He was born in Hayes, Kent, into the Hambro banking family; his grandfather Carl Joachim Hambro founded Hambros Bank in London in 1839. Olaf Hambro studied at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, and served as a captain in the Coldstream Guards during World War I. He began his banking career as managing director of Hambros Bank in 1921 and became chairman in 1932, a role he held until his death in 1961. During World War II he acquired Wiltons, a well-known restaurant on Jermyn Street in London. He was appointed High Sheriff of Sussex in 1930. He married Winifred Emily Ridley-Smith on 17 February 1917, and they lived at Kidbrooke Park in East Sussex, with a house in Port Logan, Scotland. They had three sons.