Sampson Lloyd

Sampson Samuel Lloyd (10 November 1820 – 3 March 1889) was a British banker and Conservative Party politician. He became chairman of Lloyds Bank and held a seat in the House of Commons for six years between 1874 and 1885.

Career Lloyd was the eldest son of George Braithwaite Lloyd, of The Farm in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, and his wife Mary, the daughter of John P. Dearman (also from Sparkbrook). He was educated at private schools and then at the 1868 general election in Birmingham. warning that such a move would undermine the Protestant basis of the British constitution, 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". winning a seat that had been held since 1865 by the Liberals. He held the seat for five years, He held that seat until the constituency was abolished at the 1885 general election,

Personal life Lloyd married twice, firstly in 1844 to Emma, the daughter of Samuel Reeve from Leighton Buzzard. One of his grandsons, George Ambrose Lloyd, was also a member of parliament.