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Samuel Jones Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone

1796 - 1883

This person is the subject of ongoing research. We have started by researching their relationship to the enslavement of people.

Biographical notes

Banker.

ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â Trustee (1850–1871).

Slavery connections

History of Parliament suggests that ‘he may have been the ’J.J. Lloyd‘ who was listed in the majority against Brougham’s condemnation of the conviction of the Methodist missionary John Smith for exciting insurrection among the slaves in Demerara, 11 June 1824. (Eight years later he was publicly accused, on the strength of this evidence, of favouring slavery, but he strongly denied the charge.)’. (David R. Fisher, ‘LOYD, Samuel Jones (1796-1883), of 22 New Norfolk Street, Park Lane, Mdx.’, in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History [online], London, 1964 -, 1820-1832, <> accessed 5 August 2021.)

Abolition connections

No known connections with abolition.

ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â painting connections

Donor: presented in 1852: NG225.

Bibliography

D. R. Fisher, 'LOYD, Samuel Jones (1796-1883), of 22 New Norfolk Street, Park Lane, Mdx', in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, 1820-1832,
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M. Reed, 'Loyd, Samuel Jones, Baron Overstone', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-,
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F. Russell, 'Loyd, Samuel Jones, 1st Baron Overstone', in J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-,
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020,
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