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Nicholas Redmayne

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The Hon. Sir Nicholas John Redmayne, 2nd Baronet (1 February 1938 – 18 October 2008), was an English stockbroker and investment banker, a director of Kleinwort Benson.

In his early life he was a Grenadier Guards officer.

Early life

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He was the son of Martin Redmayne and his wife Anne Griffiths. His father was a Conservative politician who became Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury.[1]

The young Redmayne was educated at Radley College in Oxfordshire and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was then commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, serving from 1958 to 1962.[1]

Career

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In 1963, Redmayne entered the London Stock Exchange and between then and 1996 was with Grieveson Grant and Kleinwort Benson.[1] In the 1980s he played a large part in developing Kleinwort Benson as a leading investment bank.[1] By the early 1990s he was a director and Joint Head of Equity Securities.[2] In 1994, Redmayne and D. C. Clementi were appointed as Joint Chief Executives of Investment Banking.[3] In 1995, his last appointment was as chairman of KBIM, while continuing as joint chief executive.[4]

In 1964, Redmayne's father was created the first Redmayne baronet of Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire. On the death of his father in 1983, he succeeded as the second baronet.[1]

Personal life

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On 7 September 1963, at Stratford-on-Avon, Redmayne married Ann Saunders, a daughter of Frank Saunders. Before divorcing in 1976, they had two children: Camilla Jane (1966) and Giles Martin (1968), later 3rd baronet. On 25 May 1978, Redmayne married secondly Christine Diane Wood Fazakerley, daughter of Thomas Wood Fazakerley.[5][6]

In 1968, Redmayne was living at 39 Hans Place, Knightsbridge, and was a member of the Carlton Club.[7] In 2003 he was living at Walcote Lodge, Walcote, Leicestershire.[5]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Sir Nicholas Redmayne, Bt: Stockbroker who helped to reposition Kleinwort Benson as a leading investment bank in the 1980s", The Daily Telegraph, 26 November 2008, accessed 10 March 2024 (subscription required)
  2. ^ R. Whiteside, ed., Major Companies of Europe 1992/93: Volume 2 (1992), p. 160
  3. ^ Banking World, Vol. 12 (1994), p. 37
  4. ^ International Financing Review, Issues 1084—1087 (1995), p. 6
  5. ^ a b Burke's Peerage, vol. 3 (2003), p. 3307
  6. ^ "Redmayne, Hon. Sir Nicholas (John)", Who's Who online, accessed 9 March 2024 (subscription required)
  7. ^ Who's Who 1968 (London: A. & C. Black, 1968), p. 2542
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baronet
(of Rushcliffe)
1983–2008
Succeeded by
Giles Martin Redmayne