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From the book entitled: The West Riding of Yorkshire at the opening of the twentieth century: Contemporary biographies
Author: W. Herbert Scott
Editor: W. T. Pike
Publisher: W.T. Pike, 1902
Page 325


WILLIAM RHODES, Grosvenor House, Headingley, Leeds; son of the late James Rhodes ; born in Hathersage, Derbyshire, October 14th, 1850; educated at Turton Hall, Gildersome. Partner in the firm of Harding, Richardson, Rhodes and Company, Ltd.; was the principal of the late firm of James Rhodes and Son, which firm was amalgamated with Messrs. T. R. Harding and Son, and Richardson, Child, Christy and Company, Ltd., under the above title, 1893 ; takes a keen interest in Church matters and is Churchwarden of All Souls', Hook Memorial Church, Leeds ; was for some years a member of the Leeds Philharmonic Society; Conservative in politics, and an old member of the Leeds and County Conservative Club.