Joseph Leicester (1825 - 1903)

Born 24 Dec 1825 in Warrington, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Joseph was born in 1825. He passed away in 1903.

Born in Warrington, he was the son of Thomas Leicester, a glassblower. At the age of nine, Leicester was apprenticed to his father's trade. In 1850 he moved to Lambeth in London, and was employed for 35 years as a glass-blower by James Powell and Sons of Whitefriars, London. Soon after his arrival in the capital he was appointed secretary of the Glassmakers Trade Society, a position he held for more than forty years.

In the 1885 general election, Leicester was elected Member of Parliament for West Ham South but in the 1886 general election, he was defeated by the Conservative candidate.

At the 1892 general election he was chosen to contest the West Ham South seat for the Liberals. However, the party withdrew from the constituency, in favour of Keir Hardie of the Independent Labour Party, who went on to win the seat.

Sources

Primary

• https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-joseph-leicester/index.html

Secondary

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Leicester

• The flint glass makers in the classic age of the labour aristocracy 1850-1880, with special reference to Stourbridge Takao Matsumura Various references Submitted for the Degree of Ph. D. University of Warwick, 1976.