Herbert de Reuter

He killed himself on 18 April 1915, three days after his wife's death, and with Reuters in financial difficulties.

Both his parents were German-speaking Jews,[1] but on 16 November 1845, seven days before the marriage, his father changed his name from Josaphat to Reuter and converted from Judaism to Lutheranism, taking the Christian names Paul Julius in a baptism ceremony at St George's German Lutheran Church, Whitechapel.

[3] Marrying Edith Campbell, a daughter of Robert Campbell, of Buscot Park, Berkshire, in 1876,[6] Reuter had a daughter, Olga Edith, born on 14 January 1877, and a son, Hubert Julius de Reuter, born on 6 September 1878, who joined the family firm.

[9] On 18 April 1915, at Reigate, Reuter shot himself dead with a revolver, a few days after the death of his wife.

[10] In 1920, after her first husband's death, Reuter's sister Clementine married Sir Herbert Chermside, a former Governor of Queensland.