Thomas Salt

Sir Thomas Salt, 1st Baronet (12 May 1830 – 8 April 1904), was a British banker and Conservative politician.

[1] In 1899 he was created a Baronet, of Standon, and of Weeping Cross in the County of Stafford.

His estates included Baswich House, built by his father in 1850, and Standon Hall, which his son later rebuilt in 1901.

His youngest son was a major-general in the army, and his uncle was the banker William Salt, after whom the William Salt Library at Stafford is named.

His granddaughter was the diplomat Dame Barbara Salt, DBE .