ABSTRACT
For the Lloyds, the later part of the eighteenth century was a time of increase in numbers, gathering esteem and change of emphasis in business. Their numbers had begun growing in the 1770s as marriage and partnerships opened up new horizons; members of the family were to lend their influence both to Quaker causes and to objects of public humanity, and as the century closes we shall see the balance of their affairs alter, the banking advance and the iron decline. Against such a background we now have to consider the banking sons of Sampson Lloyd II, and his banking sons-in-law, in Birmingham and in London.
