A Tribute to Rupert Hambro 1943-2021

Rupert Hambro CBE was a knight in shining armour. Official obituaries write of a grandee, scion of a banking dynasty, and establishment figure. He was all of those things, but his serene manner and well-cut suits hid a man who was the ‘first feminist.’ He was a believer in female entrepreneurs, when those two words were rarely put together.

I well remember going out to lunch with him in 2010, in desperate need of career advice, having been made redundant by the Board Search firm where I had been employed for barely a year. He casually dropped a bombshell into the conversation: