From the book entitled: The West Riding of Yorkshire at the opening of the twentieth century: Contemporary biogr
Editor: W. T. Pike
Publisher: W.T. Pike, 1902
Page 326
WILLIAM RHODES, son of the late Joseph Rhodes ; born at Wakefield
in 1844; educated at local schools in Wakefield, and at
Almondbury, near Huddersfield. Engineer and ironfounder;
proprietor of the Grove Iron Works, Wakefield, which were
established in 1824, by his father, whom he joined on leaving
school; for the last nine years member of Wakefield
Corporation ; formerly member of the Board of Guardians;
Chairman and Vice-President of Wakefield Liberal Club;
Chairman of the Engineering Employers' Federation (Wakefield
Association); Governor of Wakefield Charities; member
of the Society of Freemasons, Sincerity Lodge, No. 1019,
Wakefield.
The Back Rhodes of Our Genealogy
From the book entitled: The West Riding of Yorkshire at the opening of the twentieth century: Contemporary biogr