Hambro Collection

Portraits by Cecil Beaton in The Sketch, 1927
Photographs and a painting by Cecil Beaton, featuring Lady Florence Jane Alexander, Miss Baba Beaton(1912-1973) and Viscountess Grey of Fallodon (1871-1928), in a page in The Sketch

Baba Beaton
Barbara ( Baba ) Beaton (1912 - 1973), Mrs Alec Hambro, younger sister of Cecil Beaton and the subject of many of his early portraits

Engagement of the Beaton sisters
An impression by society sketch portraitist Pat Charles of the two recently engaged sisters of Cecil Beaton with their fiancÚ│« Nancy Beaton is seen with Sir Hugh Smiley

Stockwood golden hambro grape, Vitis vinifera. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Political poster, Vote for Hambro, design by Winnie Burnand. Showing the Liberal Prime Minister Campbell Bannerman trying to keep the lid on Irish Nationalism

Mrs Olaf Hambro (Miss Winifred Martin-Smith), lady golfer
The former Miss Winifred Martin-Smith, who married Ronald Olaf Hambro in 1917, was a prominent and talented lady golfer before the war

Hambro Orphanage, Roehampton
The Hambro Orphanage, Roehampton, was founded in 1879 to educate and train girls for domestic service. Date: circa 1907

The Hambro - Beaton wedding, 1934
Mr Alec Hambro with his bride Barbara (Baba) Beaton, pictured at their wedding reception held at Mrs Cunningham-Reids house in Upper Brook Street, London

The Ladies Lords v. Commons golf match
The golf match took place at Coombe Hill, Surrey and ended in victory for the Commons: Miss Seton Karr (Commons); The Dowager Countess of Wilton (Lords) and Mrs Olaf Hambro (Commons). Date: 1919

Golfers at North Berwick. Clockwise from top left: Miss Norma Cree, The Hon. V. Erskine, Miss Gathorne-Hardy and the Hon. D

Richard Hambro & his Mercedes
Richard Hambro and his Mercedes car. Hambro is a succesful business entrepeneur, later to be the founder of JO Hambro Investment Management

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