Sir Thomas Salt, 1st Baronet

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Sir Thomas Salt, 1st Baronet (12 May 1830-8 April 1904), was a British banker and Conservative politician.

His grandfather John Stevenson Salt, (High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1838), married Sarah Stevenson, the granddaughter of John Stevenson, founder in 1737 of a banking company in Stafford. Salt became a partner in the firm of Stevenson Salt & Co which had opened in Cheapside, London in 1788 and which in 1867 merged with Bosanquet & Co and later with Lloyds Banking Company

He was returned to Parliament for Stafford in 1859, a seat he held until 1865, and again from 1869 to 1880, 1881 to 1885 and 1886 to 1892. In 1899 he was created a Baronet, of Standon, and of Weeping Cross in the County of Stafford. He died in April 1904, aged 73.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Ayshford Wise Viscount Ingestre	Member of Parliament for Stafford with John Ayshford Wise 1859–1860 Thomas Sidney 1860–1865 1859–1865	Succeeded by Michael Bass Walter Meller
Preceded by Walter Meller Henry Davis Pochin	Member of Parliament for Stafford with Reginald Arthur James Talbot 1869–1874 Alexander Macdonald 1874–1880 1869–1880	Succeeded by Alexander Macdonald Charles McLaren
Preceded by Alexander Macdonald Charles McLaren	Member of Parliament for Stafford with Charles McLaren 1881–1885	Succeeded by Charles McLaren (representation reduced to one member 1885)
Preceded by Charles McLaren	Member of Parliament for Stafford 1886–1892	Succeeded by Sir Theodore Shaw
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New creation	Baronet (of Standon and Weeping Cross) 1899–1904	Succeeded by Thomas Anderson Salt

[edit] References

• Handbook of London Bankers FG Hilton Price (1970) Google Books. History of Stevenson Salt & Co
• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page