Johann Heinrich Schröder (12 December 1784 – 28 June 1883) was a member of the Hanseatic Schröder family of Hamburg, who settled in London and founded Schroders, one of the United Kingdom's largest investment banks.

[4] In 1829 John Henry was appointed Russian Vice-consul in Hamburg and this enabled him to establish expertise in exporting commodities to Russia.

[7] In 1839 he established a third firm, J. H. Schröder & Co., in Liverpool, receiving consignments of cotton from the Southern States of America.

[8] By the 1840s he was one of the United Kingdom's leading guarantors of bills of exchange relating to textile shipments.

[13] His son John Henry William Schroder was also a banker and helped to expand the firm started by his father.