Sir Felix Schuster, Bt. was a British

Great Britain

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 banker and financier

Financier

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Biography

He was educated at Frankfurt-am-Main, Geneva

Geneva

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, and Owens College, Manchester

Manchester

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; and then went into business in London

London

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. He was on the Royal Commission on London Traffic, 1903-5; Board of Trade Commission for the Amendment of Company Law, 1905; India Office Committee on Indian Railway Finance and Administration, 1907-8; and Treasury Committee on Irish Land Purchase Finance, 1907-8. He was chairman of the Council of the Institute of Bankers, 1908-9, and of the Central Association of Bankers, 1913-15.

Works

His works include:

• Foreign Trade and the Money Market
• Our Gold Reserves