title: Joseph Tritton
text: # Joseph Tritton
  
  Joseph Tritton (1819–1887) was a British Quaker banker.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Joseph Tritton was born in 1819. He was the son of Henry Tritton and Amelia Benwell.
  
  ## Career
  
  Tritton was a partner in Barclay, Bevan, Tritton & Co (now Barclays Bank) for forty years.
  
  ## Philanthropy
  
  He was Treasurer of the Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, and wrote hymns and poems.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  On 8 November 1843, he married Amelia Hanson, daughter of Joseph Hanson, and they had five children:
  
  * Joseph Herbert Tritton (1844-1923)
  * Sir Ernest Tritton, 1st Baronet (1845-1918)
  * Annette Amelia Tritton (1847-1873), she married William Leatham Barclay, the son of Joseph Gurney Barclay
  * Jessie Margaret Tritton (1857-1943), never married
  * Ethel Harriett Tritton (1859-1885), never married
  
  ## Death
  
  He died in 1887.
  
  