Schuyler K. Henderson ’67

Schuyler died Oct. 4, 2021, on Nantucket Island, Mass. He attended New Trier High School in Illinois, where he was quarterback of the football team and a National Merit Scholarship recipient. He graduated with honors in 1967 from the Woodrow Wilson School and was a member of Tiger Inn. He married Paula Snorf, a New Trier classmate, in July 1967.

Schuyler graduated from the University of Chicago law and business schools, earning a law degree and MBA in 1971. He was the first person to earn that joint degree there and was an editor of the law review. He served in the Marine Reserve in Chicago and New York from 1968 to 1973, retiring as a captain.

After law school he became a partner at Mayer, Brown, & Platt in Chicago. Sent to London to run their European office, he remained for years the youngest head of an American law firm in that city.  He pioneered currency swap agreements and in 1984 co-authored Currency and Interest Swaps, followed by Henderson on Derivatives (2003, second edition 2010). Later a partner at the international firm of Baker & McKenzie and the English firm Norton Rose, he eventually left to become an independent consultant, writer, and lecturer publishing scholarly articles on banking law.

Schuyler and his family lived in London’s Kensington area and had a weekend home in the Cotswolds, where he discovered the joy of gardening, and traveled with family to exotic countries of the world. In 2003 they sold their London residence and bought an old mill house in Upper Swell, Gloucestershire.

In May 2020, after 43 years in England, Schuyler and Paula moved permanently to Nantucket, where they had owned a house since 2008. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, sons Schuyler Wheelock Henderson and Monroe Heath Henderson, six grandchildren, and brother James D. Henderson.