Joseph Henry Nettlefold
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Joseph Henry Nettlefold (19 September 1827 – 22 November 1881) was a British
Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds
.
He was born in
Nettlefold and Chamberlain in Birmingham with his brother Edward John and cousin Joseph Chamberlain. The Chamberlains left the firm in 1874 and Edward John died in 1878, leaving effective control of Birmingham manufacturing and engineering to Joseph, and his younger brother Frederick Nettlefold as chairman in London. Nettlefolds Ltd was launched as a limited company in 1880 and Nettlefold, by a series of astute mergers and acquisitions, went on to establish a virtual monopoly in the British wood-screw
market.
Nettlefold was a sober man whose principal interests were technical. He became a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1860.
Though both his parents were
Roman Catholic
, Mary Maria Seaborne (born 1835), in 1867. None of their three daughters went on to have any connection with the family business.
Nettlefold died of
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, on condition that it open on Sundays. He left a further £1000 to the King's Heath and Moseley Institute
.
Sometime after Nettlefold's death, Nettlefold & Co. was acquired by
GKN plc
.
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