Frank Schuster (music patron)

[2][3] Leo Francis Howard Schuster was born at 151 King's Road, Brighton[4] and baptised at St John's parish church, Penge, Surrey, on 19 November 1852.

He was the only son of Mary née Howard, Norfolk-born second wife of Leo Schuster, a Jewish German-born London banker and long a naturalised citizen.

[3] One of the stories retold by The Spectator when it moved into 22 Queen Street in 2007: Boult liked to tell of how Schuster's sense of humour landed him in trouble with the ballad-singer Kennerley Rumford, with whom he had been at school.

[3] Schuster left the bulk of his fortune to Leslie 'Anzie' Wylde, a handsome and good-natured New Zealand soldier whom he met in World War I, and made his chauffeur.

[8] When Wylde later married, Schuster extended extensions to his Thames-side house to accommodate the couple, and renamed it Long White Cloud (the Maori name for New Zealand).