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 Baron Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Schröder in Hamburg, Germany, the fourth of twelve children of Baron Johann Heinrich 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 16, 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, in 1892. The title became extinct upon his death. References Who's Who Schroder at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 1825 births 1910 deaths Businesspeople from Hamburg British bankers Prussian nobility Barons of Germany Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Schroders people 19th-century British businesspeople Emigrants from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Immigrants to the United Kingdom British Lutherans