Edvard Isak Hambro was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 politician. He was the 25th President of the United Nations General Assembly

President of the United Nations General Assembly

The President of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted for by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly on a yearly basis.- Election :...

 (1970-1971) and also served on the UN's International Law Commission

International Law Commission

The International Law Commission was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 for the "promotion of the progressive development of international law and its codification."It holds an annual session at the United Nations Office at Geneva....

 from 1972 to 1977.

Biography

Hambro was the son of the politician Carl Joachim Hambro

Carl Joachim Hambro (1885-1964)

Carl Joachim "C. J." Hambro was a Norwegian journalist, author and leading politician representing the Conservative Party. A ten-term member of the Parliament of Norway, Hambro served as President of the Parliament for twenty of his thirty-eight years in the legislature...

 and his wife Gudrun Grieg. He married Elisabeth Raverat, daughter of the French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 artist Jacques Raverat

Jacques Raverat

Jacques Pierre Raverat was a French painter.He married the English painter Gwen Darwin, in 1911, the daughter of George Darwin and granddaughter of Charles Darwin. They had two daughters, Elisabeth , who married the Norwegian politician Edvard Hambro and Sophie who married the Cambridge scholar...

 and his English

English people

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 wife, the artist Gwen Darwin, a granddaughter of Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...

. They had the following children:

• Anne Hambro (born 1941)
• Carl Joachim Hambro (born 1944)
• Christian Hambro
  Christian Hambro
  Johan Christian Georg Hambro is a Norwegian civil servant.He was born in the UK as the son of Edvard Hambro and his wife Elisabeth . His grandparents were C. J. Hambro and Gudrun on the paternal side and Jacques Raverat and Gwen on the maternal side...
  
  (born 1946), politician
• Linda Hambro (born 1948)

External links

• http://www.un.org/ga/55/president/bio25.htm