Nigel Kenneth Cayzer (nee Galliers-Pratt) 1954-2026

 Nigel Kenneth Cayzer, who died in France, 21 March, 2026, aged 71, was descended from the Cayzer baronets.

He was a businessman and chairman of two London-listed funds: Aberdeen Asian Smaller Companies Investment Trust and Oryx International Growth Fund. He served as chairman of the cancer care charity Maggie's from 2005 to 2014.

 Cayzer began his career working in the stock exchange for L Messel & Co. In 1986 he became a non-executive director of Caledonia Investments, a UK-listed investment trust company. In 1989 he became chairman of Allied Insurance Brokers (AIB). In 1991 the holding company's name was changed from Allied Insurance Brokers to Oriel. Oriel subsequently became the UK's leading motor warranty company.

In 1993 he oversaw the acquisition by the Oman National Insurance Company (ONIC) of an 18.7% stake in Oriel. The following year he established and became chairman of the Oryx JIA, an open-ended fund quoted on the Muscat Securities Market and invested principally in equities in Oman and other countries in the GCC. He held this position until 2007. He was a non-executive director of the Alliance Housing Bank SAOG between 1998 and 2006, and is the current chairman of the Oryx International Growth Fund.

He was born 30 April, 1954, the second son of Anthony Malcolm Galliers-Pratt, CBE (1928-1998), and his wife Angela Cayzer (1926-2014), daughter of Sir Charles William Cayzer, 3rd Baronet (1896-1940).

In 1982 he assumed the surname of Cayzer in lieu of his patronymic on being named as heir to the property of his uncle, Sir James Cayzer, 5th Baronet. 

He married 8 May, 1986, Henrietta Caroline Rose Sykes (born 12 May, 1957), younger daughter of Sir Mark Richard Tatton Sykes, 7th Baronet (1905-1978), of Sledmere, by whom he had issue, two sons, Arthur (born 24 March, 1988), and John (born 30 Oct, 1996), and two daughters, Virginia (born 17 Jan, 1990), and Angelica (born 11 Sept, 1992).

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