Constituency : Knaresborough 1847 -52 , City of York 1857-65 , 1868-71
Joshua was a Wesleyan manufacturer from Manchester , a director of the Trent Valley Railway Company and a considerable Irish landowner. He was prominent in the campaign against the Corn Laws ; in 1839 he published an open letter to Peel warning about the dangers of interruption to the US cotton supplies and outlining his own radical visions.
He resigned his seat in 1871.
He died in 1877 aged 70.
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