Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone
The Lord Overstone | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament for Hythe | |
| In office 1819–1826 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Samuel Jones-Loyd 25 September 1796 |
| Died | 17 November 1883 (aged 87) |
| Political party | Whig |
| Spouse |
Harriet Wright
(m. 1829; died 1864) |
| Children | 2, including Banker |
Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone (25 September 1796 – 17 November 1883) was a British banker and politician.
Background and education
Loyd was the only son of the Rev. Lewis Loyd and Sarah, daughter of John Jones, a Manchester banker.[1] He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.[2]
Banking
Loyd's father had given up the ministry to take a partnership in his father-in-law's bank and became the founder of the London branch of Jones, Loyd & Co. Loyd joined his father's bank, and took control of the bank after his father retired in 1844. On his father's death in 1858 Loyd inherited an estate worth
Political career
Loyd sat in parliament as
Family
Lord Overstone married Harriet, daughter of Ichabod Wright, in 1829. They had one son, who died as an infant, and a daughter.[1] His seat was Overstone House, Overstone, Northamptonshire built in 1862–4 to a design by William Milford Teulon, brother of the more eminent - and notorious 'Rogue' - Victorian architect Samuel Sanders Teulon. Lady Overstone died on 6 November 1864. Overstone remained a widower until his death on 17 November 1883, aged 87. The barony died with him as he had no surviving male issue. His will was proven on 31 December at £2,118,803 17s. 5d. (roughly equivalent to £227,033,154 in 2021[7]).[8]
The majority of Overstone's fortune was passed on to his daughter,
References
- ^ a b c "Loyd, Samuel Jones (1796-1883), of 22 New Norfolk Street, Park Lane, Mdx., History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
- ^ "Loyd, Samuel Jones (LT813SJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ RBS History
- ^ "No. 21073". The London Gazette. 1 March 1850. p. 653.
- ^ "No. 19586". The London Gazette. 2 February 1838. p. 232.
- ^ Christine Kinealy, Charity and the Great Hunger. The Kindness of Strangers'. Bloomsbury, 2013
- ^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
- ^ "Baron Overstone". probatesearchservice.gov. UK Government. 1883. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ^ Cokayne, George Edward (1895). Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, Or Dormant. G. Bell & Sons. p. 159 and note b.
- archive.org
Further reading
- Overstone, Samuel Jones Loyd, Baron; O'Brien, D. P. (1971). The correspondence of Lord Overstone. Cambridge: University Press. )
- Read, Charles (2022). The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain's Financial Crisis. Woodbridge. OCLC 1338837777.)
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Overstone, Samuel Jones Loyd, 1st Baron". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 384.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Samuel Jones-Loyd
- The Overstone Papers in Senate House Library, University of London
- http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/14/2017.htm
- http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/rjllinsay.html
- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/berks/ardington_lockinge.htm