Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1925-04-19 | Page 26 | Had 260 Rooms, Lived In Cellar

HAD AD ROOMS I LIVED IN CELLAR LO LONDON LOmO mO April A 18 Sir C 18 W Hambro a director ot of o the Bank of England land who died re- re recently recently re recently at the age of ot 83 was owner of one of ot the largest residences In the world buthe but he never called It II a palace or a a castle catle preferring U L to tobe tobe tobe be known always merely aa as hUi home The Hambro house In Dor was known to the tho neigh neighborhood as Milton Abbey getting Its name from tho the fact tact that origInally originally It wa was a monastery It wu waa remodeled many years ago by Sir Everard and taking In all the old nooks of the ancient buildings was waa found to have about rooms Sir Everard was extremely elm sim- simple sim simple pie In his tastes and one of his favorite remarks to his hla Intimate friends was that nis home con con- contained tamed about 55 rooms more than he required OutSide of ot his II li library the favorite haunt of ot Sir Everard was the basement Here he ha bad had fixed up a work shop and spent many hours each day potter potter- pottering potter ing with hammers and saws and other tools toots used b by workers In Inwood inwood Inwood wood The rhe bank banket frequently reo re- remarked re remarked marked that he lad nad always In a away away away way regretted that he had not been a cabinet maker by trade The Hambro London banking firm which of ot Sir Everard was the head contained some of ot the fin fin- fin finest est cit financial traditions of at the lasi century The company assisted materially In the reconstruction ot of Italy atter after the financial disaster which overtook the country In the days of at Napoleon