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1ST BARON SAMUEL JONES LOYD OVERSTONE

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 384 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON See also:SAMUEL See also:JONES LOYD See also:OVERSTONE  (1796- 1883), See also:English See also:barker, the only son of the Rev . See also:Lewis Loyd, a Welsh dissenting See also:minister, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:September 1796 . He was educated at See also:Eton and Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge . His See also:father, who had married a daughter of See also:John See also:Jones, a banker of See also:Manchester, had given up the See also:ministry to take a See also:partnership in his father-in-See also:law 's See also:bank, and had afterwards founded the See also:London See also:branch of Jones, Loyd & Co., afterwards incorporated in the London and See also: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 See also:death he See also:left See also:personal See also:property of over £2,000,000 . He sat in See also:parliament as liberal member for See also:Hythe from 1819 to 1826, and unsuccessfully contested Manchester in 1832 . As See also:early as 1832 he was recognized as one of the foremost authorities on banking, and he enjoyed much See also:influence with successive ministries and chancellors of the See also:exchequer . He was created See also:Baron See also:Overstone in 1850 . He died in London on the 17th of See also:November 1883, leaving one daughter, who married See also:Robert See also:James Loyd-See also:Lindsay, afterwards See also:Lord See also:Wantage .

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Eden Park, He lived in a house called Wickham Park on the site of the present Bethlem Royal Hospital. The book is published by Halsgrove and tells of the move of four Welsh brothers from Wales to England and the change of their name from Lloyd to Loyd.One of the roads in Shirley is called Overstone Gardens. Cheers Pat Manning
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