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 326
WILLIAM VENABLES RHODES, Tofts House,
Cleckheaton ; born at Liversedge, January 24th, 1849 ;
educated at Grange Academy, Leominster, and Wellhouse
Moravian College, Mirfield. For thirty-nine years connected
with the Huddersfield Banking Company, Ltd., at Cleckheaton,
before and since its amalgamation with the London, City and
Midland Bank, Ltd.; member of the Bradford Historical and
Antiquarian Society, the Bronte Society, and member of
several of the Clcckheaton and district literary and social
clubs.
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From the book entitled: The West Riding of Yorkshire at the opening of the twentieth century: Contemporary biographies