
Sampson Samuel Lloyd (10 November 1820 – 3 March 1889)
was a British banker and
Conservative Party
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politician. He became chairman of
Lloyds Bank
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and held a seat in the
House of Commons
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for six years between 1874 and 1885.
Career
Lloyd was the eldest son of George Braithwaite Lloyd, of The Farm in
Sparkbrook
Sparkbrook is an inner-city area in south-east Birmingham, England. It is one of the four wards forming the Hall Green formal district within Birmingham City Council.
Etymology
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, Birmingham,
and his wife Mary, the daughter of John P. Dearman (also from Sparkbrook).
He was educated at private schools
and became a
Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for
Warwickshire
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and for
City of Birmingham
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.
By 1884 he was chairman of
Lloyds Bank
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.
For several years he was also chairman of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom.
He was unsuccessful on the first two occasions when he stood for Parliament, firstly at a by-election in July 1867 in the
Liberal Party
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stronghold of
Birmingham
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,
and then at the
1868 general election in Birmingham.
In his election address in 1868 Lloyd took a strong
antidisestablishmentarian
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stance on proposals to
disestablish
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the (Anglican)
Church of Ireland
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,
warning that such a move would undermine the
Protestant
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basis of the
British constitution
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, and fearing that it would lead to "a great increase in the political power of the hierarchy established in that country by the Court of Rome".
At the
1874 general election he was elected as a member of parliament (MP) for
Plymouth
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Plymout ...
, winning a seat that had been held since
1865
Events
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by the Liberals.
[Craig, page 241] He held the seat for five years,
until his defeat at the
1880 general election by the Liberal
Peter Macliver.
Lloyd was returned to the Commons at a
by-election in November 1884 for
South Warwickshire
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. He held that seat until the constituency was abolished at the
1885 general election,
when he was defeated by the Liberal
Lord William Compton in the new
Stratford-on-Avon division of Warwickshire.
Personal life
Lloyd married twice, firstly in 1844 to Emma, the daughter of Samuel Reeve from
Leighton Buzzard
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.
He married again in 1865 to Marie, the daughter of his Excellency Lieutenant-General Friedrich Wilhelm Menckhoff (1789-1866) of the
Prussian Army
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.
[Joseph Foster, The Pedigree of Wilson of High Wray and Kendal and the Families Connected with Them]
S.79
/ref> One of his grandsons, George Ambrose Lloyd
George Ambrose Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd, (19 September 1879 – 4 February 1941) was a British Conservative politician strongly associated with the " Diehard" wing of the party. From 1937 to 1941 he was chairman of the British Council, in which ...
, was also a Member of Parliament.
See also
* Sampson Lloyd
Sampson Lloyd II (15 May 1699 – 1779) was an English iron manufacturer and banker, who co-founded Lloyds Bank. He was a member of the notable Lloyd family of Birmingham.
Career
Sampson Lloyd was the third son of Sampson Lloyd (1664� ...
References
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English bankers
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1874–1880
UK MPs 1880–1885
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Plymouth
People from Birmingham, West Midlands
Lloyds Banking Group people
1820 births
1889 deaths
19th-century English businesspeople
Lloyd family of Birmingham