Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone (25 September 1796 – 17 November 1883) was a British banker and politician.
[3] Loyd sat in parliament as Whig member for Hythe from 1819 to 1826,[1] and unsuccessfully contested Manchester in 1832.
As early as 1832 he was recognized as one of the foremost authorities on banking, and he enjoyed much influence with successive ministries and chancellors of the exchequer.
Loyd is considered one of the great figures in British monetary history, particularly with respect to the Bank Charter Act 1844.
In 1847 and 1848, he served on the committee of the British Relief Association, which raised almost half a million pounds on behalf of the famine victims in Ireland.
Bloomsbury, 2013) Lord Overstone married Harriet, daughter of Ichabod Wright, in 1829.
She was the wife of Robert Lindsay, who assumed the additional surname of Loyd and was created Baron Wantage in 1885.