Thomas Salt

Sir Thomas Salt 1st Baronet
Born	(1830-05-12)12 May 1830
Died
Nationality	British
Occupation	Banker Politician
Organization	Conservative Party
Relatives	John Stevenson Salt (grandfather) William Salt (uncle) Dame Barbara Salt, DBE (granddaughter)

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

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. He was also Chairman, from 1883 to 1904, of the North Staffordshire Railway. He was also chair of the New Zealand Midland Railway Company in 1889.

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. 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.

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 .

References

• Handbook of London Bankers FG Hilton Price (1970) Google Books. History of Stevenson Salt & Co
• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Thomas Salt

Parliament of the United Kingdom
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 Davis Pochin	Member of Parliament for Stafford 1869–1880 With: Reginald Arthur James 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