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