People, Places, Enterprises & Miscellany pertaining to the Fox family

Sampson ll Lloyd (1699-1779) – founder of Lloyd’s Bank

Sampson Lloyd ll 1699

Sampson Lloyd ll m1. Sarah Parkes (1699-1729) m2. Rachel Champion (1712-1766)
Lloyd H Fox  was the 4th great grandson of Sampson ll & Rachel

source: Wikipedia
After the death of Sampson I in 1725 his sons Charles and Sampson II bought the Town Mill and traded in iron. Sampson II (1699–1779) 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, at the age of 66, he formed a company with the leading Birmingham button maker John Taylor (1704–1775) and his own son, Sampson III, creating Birmingham’s first bank: Taylor’s and Lloyds, located at 7 Dale End. This is the bank which became Lloyds Bank, and then Lloyds TSB.

 

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