Daniel Thwaites
English brewer and politician
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::summary English brewer and politician ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Daniel Thwaites |
| constituency_MP | Blackburn |
| parliament | United Kingdom |
| alongside | William Edward Briggs |
| term_start | 1875 |
| term_end | 1880 |
| predecessor | |
| successor | |
| birth_date | 1817 |
| death_date | |
| party | Conservative |
| children | Elma Amy |
| occupation | Brewer, politician |
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| name = Daniel Thwaites | image = | alt = | constituency_MP = Blackburn | parliament = United Kingdom | alongside = William Edward Briggs | term_start = 1875 | term_end = 1880 | predecessor = | successor =
| birth_date = 1817 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | party = Conservative | children = Elma Amy | occupation = Brewer, politician Daniel Thwaites (1817 – 21 September 1888) was an English brewer and a Conservative Party politician from Blackburn in Lancashire. He owned what is now Thwaites Brewery, and sat in the House of Commons from 1875 to 1880.
He was the son of Daniel Thwaites (1777–1843), an excise man who in 1807 had become one of the three partners of the Eanam Brewery in Blackburn, and sole owner of the business in 1824.{{cite web |url=http://www.danielthwaites.com/AboutUs/Bicentenary.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091128132353/http://www.danielthwaites.com/AboutUs/Bicentenary.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 November 2009 |title=Celebrating 200 years of brewing |publisher=Thwaites Brewery |access-date=19 December 2010 The younger Daniel inherited the business in partnership with two of his brothers, and became sole owner in 1857.
At the 1874 general election, he unsuccessfully contested the borough of Blackburn.{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 |orig-year=1977 |edition= 2nd |year=1989 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-26-4 |page=50 However, he won the seat at a by-election in October 1875 after the death of Henry Master Feilden,{{London Gazette |issue= 24253 |date= 8 October 1875 |page=4769
Family
In 1859, he married Eliza Amelia Gregory (1824–1907). They had two children, Edward George Duckworth Thwaites who was born on 20 March 1861, but died in the August of the same year and a daughter, Elma Amy (born 30 July 1864), who married Robert Yerburgh, MP for Chester, and inherited the Thwaites Brewery business on the death of her father.
In 1876, he built a large country house, Billinge Scar, on the edge of Blackburn. After his death, it passed to Elma and her husband.
References
References
- {{Rayment-hc. b. 3. (March 2012)
- Hartley, Gordon. "Daniel and Eliza Thwaites". Cotton Town (Blackburn with Darwen).
- (15 July 2003). "Elma Amy Thwaites". The Peerage.com.
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