Career
The second co-founded Lloyds Bank. The Lloyd family was formerly seated at Dolobran Hall, Montgomeryshire, in Wales, which had been abandoned by Sampson I"s father the Quaker Charles II LLoyd (1637-1698), who deemed the town of Birmingham more tolerant to his non-conformist religion, for his adherance to which he had been imprisoned for several years at Welshpool in Wales. 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 for £1,290 a 56 acre estate called "Owen"s Farm" in the manor of Bordesley (in the area now known as Sparkbrook) on the edge of the town of Birmingham.
He retained the Tudor farmhouse and built nearby a Georgian mansion which he called "Farm", now a grade II* listed building. He continued to reside partly in his former townhouse in Edgbaston Street, Birmingham, near his ironworks.
This is the bank which became Lloyds Bank, and then Lloyds Trustee Savings Bank, before ultimately returning to be known as Lloyds Bank, part of Lloyds Banking Group. He lived, and died, in Bingley House on Broad Street, later demolished to build the Bingley Hall, itself demolished for the International Convention Centre and Symphony Hall.
