Daniel Thwaites (1817 – 21 September 1888)[1] was an English brewer[2] and a Conservative Party[3] politician from Blackburn in Lancashire.
He was the son of Daniel Thwaites (1777–1843), an excise man who in 1807 had become one of the three partners of the Eanam Brewery in Blackburn, and sole owner of the business in 1824.
[3] However, he won the seat at a by-election in October 1875 after the death of Henry Master Feilden,[2] and was one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Blackburn until his defeat at the 1880 general election.
They had two children, Edward George Duckworth Thwaites who was born on 20 March 1861, but died in the August of the same year[5] and a daughter, Elma Amy (born 30 July 1864), who married Robert Yerburgh, MP for Chester,[6] and inherited the Thwaites Brewery business on the death of her father.
In 1876 he built a large country house, Billinge Scar, on the edge of Blackburn, which passed after his death to Elma and her husband.