Bruno Schroder

Bruno Lionel Schroder (17 January 1933 – 20 February 2019) was a British banker and billionaire and a significant landowner in Scotland. He was a direct descendant of Johann Heinrich Schröder, co-founder of financial institution Schroders, and the longest serving non-executive board member of any company on the London FTSE 100. Forbes magazine estimated Schroder's family wealth at US$6.2 billion in August 2018. Schroder owned the 17,500 acre Dunlossit Estate on the island of Islay in Scotland's Inner Hebrides. Early life and education He was born on 17 January 1933, and educated at Eton, University of Tours, the School of Languages Hamburg, University College, Oxford, and Harvard Business School. Schroder received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2012. Career Schroder joined the commercial banking and corporate finance division of J. Henry Schroder Wagg & Co. in 1960, and was appointed a director of Schroders in 1963. Schroder was a non-executive director of Schroders and a member of the company's nominations committee. In 2017 Schroder donated £50,000 to the "Remain" campaign against Brexit as well as the campaign against Scotland leaving the UK.