Joseph Herbert Tritton

Joseph Herbert Tritton was born on 5 September 1844 at Olney Lodge, in Battersea, then in Surrey (now London).[1] His father, Joseph Tritton (1819–1887), was a Quaker banker.[1] His mother was Amelia Hanson, the daughter of Joseph Hanson of Brixton.[1]

He was educated at Windlesham House School and Rugby School.[2][1]

Tritton was a banker.[1] He was a partner in Barclay, Bevan, Tritton & Co.[3] When it became known as Barclays Bank, he served on its board of directors,[3] retiring as a director in 1918.[1]

Tritton was a co-founder of the Institute of Bankers and served as its President twice.[3] Additionally, he served on the Council of Foreign Bondholders and he was honorary secretary of the London Clearing Bankers.[3] He served as the President of the London Chamber of Commerce.[3]

Additionally, he served as the Chairman of the Indo-European Telegraph Company (now Siemens Communications).[3]

He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1890.[3] He was a recipient of the Order of the Lion and the Sun.[3]

Tritton was a devout Christian and a speaker at the biggest international Protestant conference to date in London, 1888. He spoke of Paul's the apostle's words whose conviction led him to say that he was a man indebted to the world (Romans 1:14:"I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish"). Likewise, so Tritton, Christians ought approach ministry and missions with the same attitude and use commerce as a means of propagating Christ-like values. Commerce and Missions are to cooperate and pay off the debt of love to the world.[4]

On 17 June 1867, he married Lucy Jane Smith, the daughter of Henry Abel Smith (1826–1890) of Wilford, Nottingham, a banker with interests in Lincoln and Nottingham.[1] They had five sons and four daughters.[1]

• Herbert Leslie Melville Tritton (1870–1940), married Gertrude Susan Gosset
• Alan George Tritton (1882–1914), Captain, 3rd Bn, Coldstream Guards, died in World War I

Tritton died at his home, Lyons Hall, in Great Leighs, Essex on 11 September 1923.[1]