Giles Pritchard-Gordon, the shipowner and shipbroker, has died of leukaemia aged 64.

Giles Pritchard-Gordon. 1947 - 2011

Tributes have flooded in from ex-colleagues and business contacts alike.

Michael Combe who worked with him for many years said: "Giles was the best broker I ever met.

"He was brilliant, a wonderful man."

An ex-colleague from his Clarkson days remembered him as 'a wonderful, wonderful person', 'full of life and always laughing'.