Sampson Gideon

Sampson Gideon
A portrait of Sampson by Benjamin Long
BornFebruary 1699
London, Middlesex
Died17 October 1762(1762-10-17) (aged 63)
Erith, Kent
Other namesSampson Abudiente
Occupations
  • Financier
  • broker
Known forFinancing suppression of the Jacobite Rising of 1745
Not to be confused with his son, who initially was also called Sampson Gideon and later Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley.

Sampson Gideon (February 1699 – 17 October 1762) was a British banker and philanthropist active in the City of London during the Georgian era. Gideon is most prominently known for his financing of the Hanoverian-Whig government's suppression of the Jacobite rising of 1745, subsequently becoming a trusted "adviser of the Government" who supported the passage of the Jewish Naturalisation Act 1753. Historian James Picciotto, in his 1875 book Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History described Gideon as the "Rothschild of his day" and the "pillar of state credit".