Sir John Schroder, 1st Baronet

Sir John Henry William Schroder, 1st Baronet and Baron von Schröder (13 February 1825-20 April 1910) was an Anglo-German merchant banker, his firm being Schroders PLC. He was known as Baron Sir John Henry Schroder.

Schroder was born Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Schröder in Hamburg, Germany, the fourth of twelve children of Baron von Schröder (in the Prussian nobility) and Henriette von Schwartz. Both his parents were born into prominent Hamburg merchant families.

In 1814, at the age of sixteen, Sir John joined the London office of the banking house founded by his father.

He later moved to England and was created a Baronet of The Dell, in the Baronetcy of the United Kingdom. The title became extinct upon his death.

References

• Who's Who
• Schroder at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography