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About Joseph Brotherton
- Joseph Brotherton (22 May 1783 – 7 January 1857) was a reforming British politician, Nonconformist minister and pioneering vegetarian. He was born in Whittington, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, and was the son of John Brotherton, an excise collector, and his wife Mary.
- In 1789 the family moved to Salford, Lancashire, where John Brotherton established a cotton and silk mill.Joseph received no formal education, instead joining the family firm, of which he became a partner in 1802.
- On the death of his father in 1809 he went into partnership with his cousin William Harvey.
- In 1806 he married his business partner's sister, Martha.
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