ABSTRACT
In his business Sampson Lloyd was now alone. His father had run it single-handed, but the business had grown and Sampson himself had had a partner. His brother's young sons were going into other trades, and his own boy was not yet in his teens, but Sampson Lloyd was not daunted by the situation and he was now to put forth so much initiative and achievement that it is clear he welcomed it. Within the next ten years he had advanced his manufacturing operations to the Trent, acquired a property in the country, and become a partner in a business at Bristol; but these were coming events, and it is time to see what we can of his family and of the local scene in this Birmingham of 1741.
