Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley

1767 portrait of Eardley (right) with an unidentified companion by Pompeo Batoni.[1]
A memorial to Eardley in a church in Erith.

Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley, FRS (10 October 1744 – 25 December 1824) was a British banker, Tory politician and peer who sat in the House of Commons from 1770 to 1802. The son of Sampson Gideon, a Jewish banker in the City of London, he was raised to the peerage of Ireland in 1789.[2]

  1. ^ "Sir Sampson Gideon and an unidentified companion". National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  2. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,Volume 22. Oxford University Press. 2004. p. 106. ISBN 0-19-861372-5.Article on Sampson Gideon (1699–1762) by Edgar Samuel.