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Stephen Gordon Catto, 2nd Baron Catto (14 January 1923 – 3 September 2001), was a British banker and businessman. Catto was educated at
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, and then spent four years in the Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve. In 1948, he joined merchant bank Morgan Grenfell & Co., where his father had previously been a partner. He was appointed a director in 1957 and chairman of the bank in 1974. He became chairman of the group holding company, Morgan Grenfell Holdings, in 1979. Other directorships held included Yule Catto & Co plc (from 1960, Chairman from 1971 until 23 May 2000) and Times Newspapers Holdings Ltd. From 1963-8 he was a part-time member of the
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.''Annual Report and Accounts for the Year ended 31st December 1969'',
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Further reading

*Richard Roberts
‘Catto, Stephen Gordon, second Baron Catto (1923–2001)’
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', online edn, Oxford University Press, January 2005.


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Yule Catto & Co plc
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