Joshua Scholefield

Joshua Scholefield (23 May 1775 – 4 July 1844)[1] was a British businessman and Radical politician. He was elected as one of Birmingham's two first members of parliament when the town was enfranchised as a result of the Reform Act 1832 (2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 45).[2]

Born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, by 1800 he had established himself as an iron manufacturer, merchant and banker at Birmingham.[2] He subsequently became a director of the National Provincial Bank, the London Joint Stock Bank and the Metropolitan Assurance Company.[2]

  1. ^ Commemorative medals of Scholefield struck by Thomas Halliday in 1832 show his date of birth as 23 May 1775. [1] [2]
  2. ^ a b c R. W. Davis (2004). "Scholefield, Joshua (1774/5–1844)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24814. Retrieved 4 April 2010. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)