Show Had Rooms Booms Lived Lived Lived-in in Cellar LONDON April 11 Sir Sir Everard Hambro who died recently at age of 9 93 was owner of ot one of or the I largest r residences in tho the world but buthe buthe buthe he never called it a palace or a castIe castle castle cas cas- tle tIe preferring it to be known al always always al- al ways was merely as his home The Tho Hambro house in was known to the neighbors as Milton I Abbey Abtey getting its name from the fact that originally it was a monaster mon mon- aster astery It Jt was remodeled many years ago by Sir Everard and taking taking taking tak tak- ing in all the old nooks of ot the an ancient ancient ancient an- an buildings was found to have about rooms Sir Sir- Everard wad as extremely simple simple sim sim- pIe in his tastes and one of ot his fa favorite favorite ta- ta remarks to to his intimate friends was that his home contained about 25 rooms rooms more than he lie r re Outside of ot his library the tho re-I re I favorite haunt of ot Sir Everard was the basement Here he had fixed I up a a. work shop and SP spent nt man many II I hours each day pottering with hammers hammers hammers ham ham- mers and saws sawa and tools used by workers in wood The banker I I frequently remarked that he had always al- al i I ways in a way regretted that I ai-I ho he had not been a cabinet maker by trade The Hambro London Landor banking firm of ot which Sir Everard erard was the tho head contained some of ot tho the finest financial financial finan finan- cial traditions of ot the last century The company assisted materially in inthe inthe the tho reconstruction of ot Italy after tho the financial disaster which overtook o I Ithe the country in the days of or Napo Napo- leon Napo-I Napo |