Joseph Herbert Tritton was born on 5 September 1844 at Olney Lodge, in Battersea, then in Surrey (now London).

[5] Tritton also served on the Council of Foreign Bondholders and was the honorary secretary of the London Clearing Bankers.

[4] 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.

[12][13] Tritton died at his home, Lyons Hall, in Great Leighs, Essex on 11 September 1923.