3-034-818 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Sir Joshua Walmsley, 1871. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Southwell. 'Sir Joshua, who was at one time a prominent man among the representatives of the Nonconformist body in the House of Commons, was a son of the late Mr. John Walmsley, a marble-mason of Liverpool, where he was born, in the year 1794. He was for many years a merchant at Liverpool, of which city he served as Mayor in the years 1839-40. He was a magistrate for the county and city of Lancashire, and sat in Parliament about ten years, representing in the "Advanced" Liberal interest the borough of Leicester in 1847-8, and again from 1852 to 1857, having in the interval sat three years for Bolton. He received the honour of knighthood, as Mayor of Liverpool, on presenting an address to her Majesty on the occasion of her marriage. Sir Joshua...married, in 1815, Adeline, daughter of Mr. Hugh Mullineux, of Liverpool. He has left a son, Colonel Hugh Walmsley, late of the Turkish military service, and the author of several novels and books of travel. A daughter of Sir Joshua is the wife of Dr. W. B. Hodgson, Professor of Political Economy and Mercantile Law in the University of Edinburgh'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.