John Stevenson Salt (25 June 1775 – 16 August 1845) was an English barrister, banker and land owner. He was born in June 1775, the son of Thomas Salt (died 1788) of

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and Elizabeth Stevenson. He was baptised 7 August 1775 in

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.''Birmingham, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812''. He married in 1800 Sarah Stevenson, granddaughter of William Stevenson, founder in 1737 of Stevenson's Bank in

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. The bank was established at Cheapside, London in 1788. Salt became a partner in the bank, which in 1801 was renamed Stevenson and Salt. In 1867 it merged with Bosanquet & Co and later with Lloyds Banking Company. He owned estates at Weeping Cross, Stafford where in 1813 he built the White House, and at Standon Hall, Staffordshire. He served as

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in 1838. His ten children included: * Thomas Salt (b 1791) his heir, who replaced the White House with a new mansion, Baswich House, built in 1850 (and demolished in March 2009). His son was Sir Thomas Salt Bt. MP. *

William Salt William Salt (29 October 1808 – 6 December 1863) was a British banker in London, England, and a genealogist and antiquary in whose memory the William Salt Library in Stafford was founded. Life Salt's father, John Stevenson Salt (High Sh ...

(1808–1863), banker and antiquarian, after whom the William Salt Library at Stafford is named. * Rev Joseph Salt (1810–1862), Rector of Standon, Staffordshire from 1845.

References

* ''Handbook of London Bankers'' Frederick G Price (1970) p 17. Google Books. * ''A Survey of Staffordshire, containing the Antiquities of that County'' Sampson and Erdeswick (1829) p99. Google Books. {{DEFAULTSORT:Salt, John Stevenson 1775 births 1845 deaths English bankers High Sheriffs of Staffordshire People from Rugeley