Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lord Catto | |
Office: | Member of the House of Lords |
Status: | Lord Temporal |
Term Label: | as a hereditary peer |
Term Start: | 23 August 1959 |
Predecessor: | The 1st Baron Catto |
Term End: | 11 November 1999 |
Successor: | Seat abolished |
Birth Name: | Stephen Gordon Catto |
Birth Date: | 14 January 1923 |
Party: | Crossbench |
Occupation: | Banker, businessman |
Stephen Gordon Catto, 2nd Baron Catto (14 January 1923 – 3 September 2001), was a British banker and businessman.
Catto was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, and then spent four years in the Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve.[1] In 1948, he joined merchant bank Morgan Grenfell & Co., where his father had previously been a partner.[2] He was appointed a director in 1957[3] and chairman of the bank in 1974.[4] He became chairman of the group holding company, Morgan Grenfell Holdings, in 1979.[5] 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 London Transport Board.[6]
. Kathleen Burk . Morgan Grenfell 1838-1988: The Biography of a Merchant Bank. Clarendon Press. 1989. 978-0-19-828306-5.