Claude Evan (Arthur) Loombe, CMG^[1]

1905 - 1978  (~ 73 years)

• Name	Claude Evan (Arthur) Loombe
  Suffix	CMG
  Born	sum 1905	Norwich, Norfolk, England UK
  	The birth of Claude Evan Loombe was registered Jul-Aug-Sep 1905, Norwich, Norfolk, England, v. 4b, p. 181.
  Gender	Male
  Died	12 Feb 1978	Portugal
  	Obituary says while on holiday in Portugal Tribute in The Times [London], 4 Mar 1978, p. 16.
  Notes	Occupation: banker. Chartered Bank; Reserve Bank of India during WWII, in charge of foreign exchange control for Iran; middle east specialist, Bank of England; - 1975, Chairman, British Bank of the Middle East. Residence of parents: Norwich, England Overseas registry, 8 Nov 1943, employed by the Ministry of Finance, Official Iraq Government; address: c/o British Embassy, Baghdad, Iraq. Claude E. Loombe attended the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, 1-22 Jul 1944, as a member of the Iraq delegation. Described as: Comptroller of Exchange and Currency Officer; British subject; previously banker with the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China (1930s); exchange control officer, Reserve Bank of India (1942?). (Kurt Schuler and Mark Bernkopf, "Who Was at Bretton Woods," Center for Financial Stability, 1 Jul 2014). Claude Evan Loombe, Esq., adviser to the Bank of England, awarded Companion, Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, London Gazette, 10 Jun 1961, p. 4146. Residence: at DOD, 64 Shepherds Way, Liphook, Hampshire, England UK Deirdre C. E Loombe, Zoe I Loombe and Claude E. Loombe, 10 Maori Road, Guildford, Surrey are on the 1961, 1962 England electoral register.
  Person ID	I3118	Negroponte-Agelasto
  Last Modified	22 Dec 2020

  
  

  Father	Arthur Thomas (Thomas) Loombe,   b. 17 Jul 1859, Norfolk, England UK ,   d. 29 Apr 1908, Norwich, Norfolk, England UK  (Age 48 years)
  Mother	Catherine Jane Jermy,   b. Abt 1868, England UK ,   d. 28 Aug 1925, Croydon, Surrey, England UK  (Age ~ 57 years)
  Married	Jul 1890	Norwich, Norfolk, England UK
  Family ID	F123	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Zoë Isabella (Robert) Hotchkis,   b. 06 Jun 1913, Mid-Dyke-Bar, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland UK ,   d. Nov 2003, Sussex, England UK  (Age 90 years)
  Married	08 Feb 1936	St. Andrews Scots Kirk, Colombo, 73 Galle Rd, Ceylon/Sri Lanka
  	Marriage notice in The Times [London], 12 Feb 1936, p. 1.
  Children	1. Deirdra Catherine E. (Claude) Loombe,   b. 12 Oct 1939, St. Andrews, Scotland UK ,   d. 1 Sep 1999, Chichester, Sussex, England UK  (Age 59 years) + 2. Living + 3. Living
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2014
  Family ID	F1317	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - sum 1905 - Norwich, Norfolk, England UK Married - 08 Feb 1936 - St. Andrews Scots Kirk, Colombo, 73 Galle Rd, Ceylon/Sri Lanka Died - 12 Feb 1978 - Portugal  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Documents

  Claude Evan Loombe 1978 UK Probate

  
  

• Sources

  [S82] UK National Probate Calendar Indexes, 1858-1966, 1973-1995.