Sampson Lloyd
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There are three generations of Sampson Lloyd in the Lloyd family of Birmingham, England. The third co-founded Lloyds Bank.
Sampson Lloyd I and Mary (neè Crowley), Quakers, moved from their Leominster farm in 1698 to Edgbaston Street in Birmingham.
After the death of Sampson I in 1725 his sons Charles and Sampson II bought the Town Mill and traded in iron. Sampson II also bought a forge in Burton upon Trent. After Charles' death in 1741, Sampson II became wealthy and in 1742 bought an Elizabethan house in (then rural) Sparkbrook called "The Farm" for £1,290. He built a Georgian house there, now a grade II* listed building, but continued to live in Edgbaston Street.
In 1765 his son, Sampson III, formed a company with the button maker, John Taylor, creating Birmingham's first bank, Taylor's and Lloyds, in Dale End. This is the bank which became Lloyds Bank, and then Lloyds TSB.
His son, Charles Lloyd (1748-1828) was also a banker as well as a poet and campaigner against slavery. He lived, and died, in Bingley House on Broad Street, later demolished to build the Bingley Hall, itself demolished for the International Convention Centre and Symphony Hall. His son, Charles Lloyd II, unsuccessful poet, moved to Versailles and died in 1839.
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- A History of Birmingham, Chris Upton, 1993, ISBN 0-85033-870-0
