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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.
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 II entered banking in Birmingham in 1765 with John Taylor and his two sons. Their banking business prospered producing a profit of more than £10,000 within the first six years of trading.
Feb 14, 2022 · The story began in Welshpool in Mid Wales, where Sampson Lloyd Snr was born in 1664 in difficult circumstances. His parents, Charles and Elizabeth had been detained for refusing to swear an...
Quakers, regarded as honest and trustworthy, were ideally placed to become custodians of the gold, first as goldsmiths, and later as bankers. In 1765 Sampson Lloyd II, son of Sampson I, entered the banking business, as a partner of button-maker John Taylor, in a bank called Taylor and Lloyd.
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.
Karen Sampson man of unquestionable substance’ was how a business contemporary described Sampson Lloyd II, founder of Lloyds Bank. Taylors & Lloyds, as the firm was originally known, first opened for business 250 years ago on 3 June 1765, in Birmingham. Sampson and his three other partners each put in £2000 to set up the bank in Dale End.
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