The Hon. Sir Nicholas John Redmayne, 2nd Baronet (1 February 1938 – 18 October 2008), was an English stockbroker and investment banker, who became a director of Kleinwort Benson.
In his early life he was a Grenadier Guards officer.
Early life 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."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 ; at archive.ph 5 May 2013
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.
Career In 1963, Redmayne entered the London Stock Exchange and between then and 1996 was with Grieveson Grant and Kleinwort Benson. In the 1980s he played a large part in developing Kleinwort Benson as a leading investment bank. By the early 1990s he was a director and Joint Head of Equity Securities.R. Whiteside, ed., Major Companies of Europe 1992/93: Volume 2 (1992), p. 160 In 1994, Redmayne and D. C. Clementi were appointed as Joint Chief Executives of Investment Banking.Banking World, Vol. 12 (1994), p. 37 In 1995, his last appointment was as chairman of KBIM, while continuing as joint chief executive.International Financing Review, Issues 1084—1087 (1995), p. 6
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.
Personal life 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.Burke's Peerage, vol. 3 (2003), p. 3307"Redmayne, Hon. Sir Nicholas (John)", Who's Who online, accessed 9 March 2024
In 1968, Redmayne was living at 39 Hans Place, Knightsbridge, and was a member of the Carlton Club.Who's Who 1968 (London: A. & C. Black, 1968), p. 2542 In 2003 he was living at Walcote Lodge, Walcote, Leicestershire.
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