Sir Thomas Salt 1st Baronet | |
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Born | 12 May 1830 |
Died | 8 April 1904 73) | (aged
Nationality | British |
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Organization | Conservative Party |
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Sir Thomas Salt, 1st Baronet (12 May 1830 – 8 April 1904), was a British banker and Conservative politician.
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, known informally as the Tories, and historically also known as the Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom. The governing party since 2010, it is the largest in the House of Commons, with 288 Members of Parliament, and also has 234 members of the House of Lords, 4 members of the European Parliament, 31 Members of the Scottish Parliament, 11 members of the Welsh Assembly, 8 members of the London Assembly and 7,445 local councillors.
His grandfather John Stevenson Salt, (High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1838), married Sarah Stevenson, the granddaughter of John Stevenson, founder in 1737 of a banking company in Stafford. Salt became a partner in the firm of Stevenson Salt & Co which had opened in Cheapside, London in 1788 and which in 1867 merged with Bosanquet & Co and later with Lloyds Banking Company. Salt went on to be a director, and later Chairman, of Lloyds from 1884 to 1896. [1] He was also Chairman, from 1883 to 1904, of the North Staffordshire Railway. [2] He was also chair of the New Zealand Midland Railway Company in 1889. [3]
John Stevenson Salt was an English barrister, banker and land owner.
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He was returned to Parliament for Stafford in 1859, a seat he held until 1865, and again from 1869 to 1880, 1881 to 1885 and 1886 to 1892. From January 1876 to April 1880, he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board, a junior post, in the second ministry of Benjamin Disraeli’s government. [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. He died in April 1904, aged 73.
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Benjamin Disraeli was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a second time by Queen Victoria after William Ewart Gladstone's government was defeated in the 1874 general election. Disraeli's foreign policy was seen as immoral by Gladstone, and following the latter's Midlothian campaign, the government was heavily defeated in the 1880 general election, whereupon Gladstone formed his second government. The ailing Disraeli, by now created Earl of Beaconsfield, died in April 1881.
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 . [4]
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.
The William Salt Library is a library and archive, in Stafford, Staffordshire. Supported by Staffordshire County Council, it is a registered charity, administered by an independent trust in conjunction with the Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service, which also operates the county archives from an adjacent building.
Dame Barbara Salt, was a British diplomat.
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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.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by John Ayshford Wise Viscount Ingestre | Member of Parliament for Stafford 1859–1865 With: John Ayshford Wise 1859–1860 Thomas Sidney 1860–1865 | Succeeded by Michael Bass Walter Meller |
Preceded by Walter Meller Henry Pochin | Member of Parliament for Stafford 1869–1880 With: Reginald Talbot 1869–1874 Alexander Macdonald 1874–1880 | Succeeded by Alexander Macdonald Charles McLaren |
Preceded by Alexander Macdonald Charles McLaren | Member of Parliament for Stafford 1881–1885 Served alongside: Charles McLaren | Succeeded by Charles McLaren (representation reduced to one member 1885) |
Preceded by Charles McLaren | Member of Parliament for Stafford 1886–1892 | Succeeded by Charles Shaw |
Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
New creation | Baronet (of Standon and Weeping Cross) 1899–1904 | Succeeded by Thomas Anderson Salt |
Political offices | ||
Preceded by Clare Sewell Read | Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board 1876–1880 | Succeeded by John Tomlinson Hibbert |