Constituency : Bristol South 1885-6, Bristol East 1890-5
Joseph won the new seat of Bristol South.
Joseph was an iron merchant's son from Bristol. He went into the family business and expanded it to take in iron foundries, cotton manufacturing, Australian emigration and railway stock building. He was a city councillor in Bristol from 1868 with an interest in public libraries. He was also involved in the city's purchase of Portishead and Avonmouth Docks. He was Mayor of Bristol from 1880 to 1884.
Joseph was defeated in 1886 and was returned for the more working class Bristol East at a by-election in 1890.
Joseph was an advanced Liberal and it was said "might be a socialist if Socialism were more respectable and not so dreadfully lowering".
He died of influenza in 1895 aged 72.
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