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Sampson Lloyd II (15 May 1699 – 1779) [2] was an English iron manufacturer and banker, who co-founded Lloyds Bank. [3] He was a member of the notable Lloyd family of Birmingham.
Sampson Lloyd (1664 – 3 January 1724) was a Welsh iron manufacturer in Birmingham, then a small town in the county of Warwickshire, England, and was the founder of the Lloyd family of Birmingham, iron-founders and bankers, which went on to found Lloyds Bank, today one of the largest banks in the United Kingdom.
Lloyds Bank started life as Taylors & Lloyds in Birmingham in 1765. It was founded by Sampson Lloyd, John Taylor and their two sons. Sampson and John were already well-established businessmen before they set up what was Birmingham’s first bank. For its first 99 years, the business thrived from just a single office.
Sampson Lloyd’s father (Sampson I), fled Wales for Birmingham at the end of the 17th century, to escape persecution for his Quaker beliefs. Sampson II, also a prominent Quaker, followed his father into the iron trade.
Sampson Lloyd’s father had fled Wales for Birmingham at the end of the 17th century, to escape persecution for his Quaker beliefs. Sampson, also a prominent Quaker, followed his father into the iron trade.
Sampson Samuel Lloyd, a great-great-grandson of Sampson Lloyd III, became chairman in 1869. He oversaw Lloyds' mergers with seven banks, including its two London agents, Bosanquet, Salt and Company and Barnetts, Hoares, Hanbury and Lloyd, both in 1884.
Sampson Lloyd, iron manufacturer and banker. 1699 Born in Birmingham on 15 July, the second son of Sampson Lloyd (1664-1725), a Quaker ironmonger, and his second wife, Mary. 1717 Apprenticed to Thomas Sharp at a brass-wire firm in Bristol, but ill health led him to go home in 1720.
