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

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PLC. He was known as ''Baron Sir John Henry Schroder.'' Schroder was born ''Baron Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Schröder'' in

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, the fourth of twelve children of Baron Johann Heinrich von Schröder (in the

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n 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

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''of The Dell'', in the Baronetcy of the United Kingdom, in 1892. The title became extinct upon his death.

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