Joseph Thornton (contractor)

Joseph Thornton (1804 - 9 May 1889) was a railway contractor in England in the mid-nineteenth century.

He lived at Beaver Hall in Southgate near London with his large family and servants but left an estate of only £545.

Joseph Thornton was born in 1804 in Snaith, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

[10] By 1881, Thornton was retired and lodging with the Newman family at Kensington Park Road, London.

Probate was granted to his son, Frederic William Thornton, a mechanical engineer of 100 Palace Chambers, Bridge Street, in the City of Westminster.