Joseph Feilden (28 February 1792 - 29 August 1870) was a British landowner who represented Blackburn in Parliament from 1865 to 1869.
His eldest son Henry Master Feilden (1818-1875) was elected as the Member of Parliament for Blackburn in the subsequent by-election the petition, and held the seat until his death in 1875.
[1] Another son, Randle Joseph Feilden (1824-1895), was later the Member of Parliament for North Lancashire and Chorley.
[3] His relatives Sir William Feilden, 1st Baronet of Witton Park, and his son Montague Joseph Feilden, had represented Blackburn from 1832 to 1835 and 1853 to 1857, both as Whigs; Montague Joseph contested the 1868 election against his cousin as a Liberal.
[1] A cousin on his mother's side, Richard Willis, inherited a share of the Green Park and Spring Vale slave estates in Jamaica, and claimed around £13,500 compensation under the Slavery Abolition Act 1833; Feilden was the trustee for their claims.