Sampson Gideon 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".
Charles Edward Stuart. Gideon financially backed up the Whiggish regime against the Jacobites.
Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley
Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley, FRS 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.
1767 portrait of Eardley (right) with an unidentified companion by Pompeo Batoni.
A memorial to Eardley in a church in Erith.