Bruno Schroder, Link to a Bygone Age in Banking, Dies at 86

Schroder was the great-great grandson of Schroders co-founder
He and his family are one of the U.K.’s richest dynasties

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By Tom Metcalf, Lucca de Paoli, Suzy Waite, and Benjamin Stupples

February 21, 2019 at 12:43 PM UTC

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Bruno Schroder, heir to one of London’s oldest banking fortunes, has died. He was 86.

Money manager Schroders Plc said he died on Wednesday after a short illness. Born in 1933, he was the great-great grandson of Johann Heinrich Schroder, who set up J. Henry Schroder & Co. in 1818.