Angus Valdemar Hambro

The Right Honourable
Angus Hambro
PC
Member of Parliament
for South Dorset
In office
January 1910  15 November 1922
Preceded by Thomas Scarisbrick
Succeeded by Robert Yerburgh
Member of Parliament
for North Dorset
In office
13 July 1937  5 July 1945
Preceded by Cecil Hanbury
Succeeded by Frank Byers
Personal details
Born Angus Valdemar Hambro
8 July 1883
Bromley, Kent, United Kingdom
Died 19 November 1957 (aged 74)
Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom
Nationality British
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Rosamund Kearsley (1907-1914; her death)
Vanda St John Charlton (1916-1957; his death)
Children 7
Alma mater Eton College
Occupation Politician

Angus Valdemar Hambro (8 July 1883 - 19 November 1957) [1] was a British Conservative Party politician; and noted amateur golfer.[2] He was educated at Eton [3] and held a commission in the Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry.[4] He was Member of Parliament for South Dorset from 1910 to 1922; High Sheriff of Dorset from 1934 [5] to 1935 and a Member of Parliament again from 1937 to 1945, this time for North Dorset.[6]

Notes

  1. Obituary Captain Angus Hambro The Times (London, England), Thursday, Nov 21, 1957; pg. 14; Issue 54004
  2. Royal Eastbourne Golf Club
  3. ‘HAMBRO, Captain Angus Valdemar’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 4 Nov 2012
  4. Cobbold FHT
  5. The New Sheriffs.The Times (London, England), Friday, Mar 23, 1934; pg. 6; Issue 46710
  6. They work for you
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Thomas Scarisbrick
Member of Parliament for South Dorset
19101922
Succeeded by
Robert Yerburgh
Preceded by
Cecil Hanbury
Member of Parliament for North Dorset
19371945
Succeeded by
Frank Byers