1ST

BARON

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• SAMUEL

SAMUEL

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• JONES
• JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
• JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
• JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
• JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
• JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
• JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
• JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
• JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
• JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
• JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
• JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
• JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
• JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
• JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
• JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)

JONES LOYD

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• 1ST BARON SAMUEL JONES LOYD OVERSTONE

OVERSTONE  (1796- 1883), English barker, the only son of the Rev . Lewis Loyd, a Welsh dissenting minister, was born on the 25th of September 1796 . He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge . His father, who had married a daughter of John Jones, a banker of Manchester, had given up the ministry to take a partnership in his father-in-law 's bank, and had afterwards founded the London branch of Jones, Loyd & Co., afterwards incorporated in the London and Westminster Bank . Loyd, who had joined his father in the banking business, succeeded to it on the latter's retirement in 1844 . He conducted the business so successfully that on his death he left personal property of over £2,000,000 . He sat in parliament as liberal member for Hythe from 1819 to 1826, and unsuccessfully contested Manchester in 1832 . As early as 1832 he was recognized as one of the foremost authorities on banking, and he enjoyed much influence with successive ministries and chancellors of the exchequer . He was created Baron Overstone in 1850 . He died in London on the 17th of November 1883, leaving one daughter, who married Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, afterwards Lord Wantage .