In 1765 John Taylor and Sampson Lloyd set up a private banking business in Birmingham.
In 1810, the Reverend Henry Duncan of Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, set up a bank to help his poorest parishioners save for times of hardship. This was the first Trustee Savings Bank.
The two banks merged in 1992.
For some more Lloyds history and pictures of one of the gems in The Strand see Caroline's Miscellany.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Lloyds TSB Group
This is a small, simple monument, placed at pavement level, not raised on a p...
Anti-slavery campaigner. Born Clapham. Successful banker. Good friends with his (indirect) cousin, William Wilberforce, prior to their marriages they shared a house bought by Thornton, Battersea Ri...
Person, Commerce, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion
At 74 - 75 St Martin's Lane. Mentioned in Thackeray's "Vanity Fair".
Chairman of the Port of London Authority in 1935.
Gold refiners and assayers who occupied 53 and 54 Barbican. One of the few buildings in the area to survive the incendiary bombing in December 1940, it was demolished in 1962. In 2009 Yellow Page...
The Brabant describes a part of the low countries to the east of Flanders. Weavers had come to England from the Brabant and Flanders during the 12th century.
