sentences:  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.