Lloyds Bank plc is a British retail and commercial bank with branches across England and Wales. It has traditionally been considered one of the "Big Four" clearing banks. The bank was founded in Birmingham in 1765. It expanded during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and took over a number of smaller banking companies. In 1995 it merged with the Trustee Savings Bank and traded as Lloyds TSB Bank plc between 1999 and 2013.
George Carr Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton was a banker with interests in the railways, a partner in the family firm of Glyn, Mills & Co., which was reputed to be the largest private bank in London.
The Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway was created by Act of Parliament in 1862, to run between Stafford and Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, England. It opened for traffic in 1867. It was nicknamed the Clog and Knocker.
The Pease family is an English and mostly Quaker family associated with Darlington, County Durham, and North Yorkshire, descended from Edward Pease of Darlington (1711–1785).
The Mander family has held for over 200 years a prominent position in the Midland counties of England, both in the family business and public life. In the early industrial revolution, the Mander family entered the vanguard of the expansion of Wolverhampton, on the edge of the largest manufacturing conurbation in the British Isles. Mander Brothers was a major employer in the city of Wolverhampton, a progressive company which became the Number One manufacturers of varnish, paint and later printing ink in the British Empire. The family became distinguished for public service, art patronage and philanthropy. Charles Tertius Mander (1852–1929) was created the first baronet of The Mount in the baronetage of the United Kingdom in the Coronation honours of George V, on 8 July 1911.
Sir Charles Clow Tennant, 1st Baronet was a Scottish businessman, industrialist and Liberal politician.
Sir George Alexander Touche, 1st Baronet, born George Alexander Touch, was a British accountant and politician. He founded one of the firms which amalgamated to create Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Salt, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both titles are extant as of 2007.
William Salt was a British banker in London, England, and a genealogist and antiquary in whose memory the William Salt Library in Stafford was founded.
Tonman Mosley, 1st Baron Anslow, was a British businessman, judge and politician.
Sir Alfred Hickman, 1st Baronet was a British industrialist and Conservative party politician who was a Member of Parliament (MP) between 1885 and 1906.
Sir Edward Hopkinson Holden, 1st Baronet was a British banker and Liberal politician, most notable for his role in developing the Midland Bank into the largest bank in the world.
Arthur Howard Heath TD was a British industrialist, first-class cricketer, Rugby Union international and Conservative Party politician.
Sir Henry Seymour King, 1st Baronet KCIE was a British banker, mountaineer and Conservative politician.
John Stevenson Salt was an English barrister, banker and land owner.
Sir Benjamin Hingley, 1st Baronet, was an English ironmaster and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1895.
Sir Henry Samuel Wiggin, 1st Baronet, was an English metals manufacturer and Liberal Party politician.
Standon is a village and civil parish in the Stafford district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. Standon has a church called Church of All Saints and one school called All Saints C of E First School. In 2001 the population of the civil parish of Standon was 823, and in the 2011 census it had a population of 879.
Sir David Dale, 1st Baronet, was an English industrialist. He died as chairman of the Consett Iron Company and the mining firm Pease & Partners, and as a director of the North Eastern Railway Company. Dale owes his main distinction to his pioneer application of the principle of arbitration to industrial disputes.
Walter Lamb was an Australian businessman, banker and politician. In 1889 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, where he served until 1893. A member of the Lamb banking family, he became a director of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney in 1860. In 1880, he became chairman of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company.
