Schuyler Kent Henderson (Feb. 2, 1945 – Oct. 4, 2021) 

Schuyler Henderson was born in Evanston, Illinois, on Ground Hog’s Day, 1945.  He grew up in Winnetka, Illinois, attending New Trier High School, where he excelled academically and was quarterback of the football team.  A scholarship student at Princeton University, he graduated with honors in 1967 from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and was a member of Tiger Inn.  

Immediately after graduation, he married Paula Snorf, whom he had met when both were freshmen at New Trier. At the University of Chicago, he was the first to complete a law degree (J.D., 1971) simultaneously with an M.B.A. in the business school. He was an editor of the Law Review.  From 1968-74 he was in the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve, leaving as a captain.

Shortly after law school, he became a partner at Mayer, Brown and Platt in Chicago and was sent to London to run their European office.  He remained the youngest head of an American law firm in London for many years, developing an expertise in banking law, which combined his knowledge of both business and the law.  He was involved in what became the first swap agreement and in 1984 co-authored Currency and Interest Swaps. This was followed by the most important legal book on derivatives, Henderson on Derivatives (2003, second edition 2010).  During his long career in London, he was also a partner at the international firm of Baker & McKenzie and the English firm Norton Rose, which he eventually left to become an independent consultant, writer, and lecturer.  Over the years he published many scholarly and influential articles on banking law.

More than anything, Schuy was devoted to his family, spending weekends camping in the British countryside and later planning and guiding trips with his wife and sons to increasingly exotic and remote places.  Treks in Nepal, Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan and Peru rivalled trips up the Mahakam River in Borneo, safaris in Africa and snorkeling with sea lions in the Galapagos. 

For many years Schuy and his family lived in Kensingon (London) and had a weekend home in the Cotswolds, where he discovered the joy of gardening (initially because Paula wouldn’t let him smoke cigars in the house).  When in 2003 they sold their house in London, they bought a beautiful, very old mill house in Upper Swell, Gloucestershire in the north Cotswolds, where he created an exceptionally beautiful garden overlooking a stunning mill pond below sheep-filled fields – one of the most splendid settings in the Cotswolds.  His enormous Verbascum were much admired. 

In May 2020, after forty-three years in England, Schuy and Paula moved permanently to Nantucket, where they had owned a house since 2008 and where they had held ‘cousins camp’ every summer for their then five grandchildren.  It was during these weeks that Schuy shared with them his love of history, especially that of his family and of ancient Greek culture.  He and Paula celebrated their 50^th wedding anniversary by taking the entire family to Greece in 2017. 

Survivors include Paula, his wife of 54 years; sons Schuyler Wheelock Henderson (Kate) of New York City and Monroe Heath Henderson (Marissa) of Chesapeake, Virginia; and six grandchildren, Mary Beth, Caroline, Melissa, Neko, Sunhi and baby Henrietta, whom Schuy was delighted to meet and hold just weeks before he died.  He also leaves his brother James D. Henderson of Northfield, Illinois, and Peggy Snorf and Lowell Snorf, Paula’s sister and brother, both of Chicago. He was predeceased by his parents, William and Mary (Brower) Henderson and his elder brother Bill.

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Thank you, Paula, for sharing this with us. I've added several of Schuy's HS photos. 
Our sympathies to you and your family.
SueG
 

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Schuy was a National Merit Finalist class of '63 - Top Row 4th from right