Constituency : Scarborough 1886-92
Joshua took Scarborough from the Tories against the trend.
Joshua was an ardent Quaker. He was educated at Bootham School, York. From 1872 to 1875 he was editor of the Quaker weekly The Friend. He was a former Mayor of Scarborough.
In 1887 Joshua spoke out against Irish coercion. He seconded a pro- Home Rule motion at the Newcastle Conference.
Joshua was defeated in 1892, again against the trend, with the Tory regaining his seat. After that Joshua worked to bring Quakerism into the modern world , accommodating scientific discoveries and biblical criticism. He arranged a conference school in Manchester in 1895, a summer school in Scarborough in 1897 and established a study centre in Birmingham in 1903.
In 1900 Joshua's business premises were wrecked for his anti-Boer War stance.
Joshua wrote tracts against the opium trade.
He died in 1915 aged 70.
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