{{Short description|English brewer and politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Use British English|date=March 2018}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Daniel Thwaites | image = | alt = | constituency_MP = Blackburn | parliament = United Kingdom | alongside = William Edward Briggs | term_start = 1875 | term_end = 1880 | predecessor = {{unbulleted list| Henry Feilden | William Edward Briggs}} | successor = {{unbulleted list| William Coddington | William Edward Briggs}}

| birth_date = 1817 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date|df=y|1888|9|21}} | death_place = | party = Conservative | children = Elma Amy | occupation = Brewer, politician }} '''Daniel Thwaites''' (1817 – 21 September 1888)<ref>{{Rayment-hc|b|3|date=March 2012}}</ref> was an English brewer<ref name="gazette-1875" /> and a Conservative Party<ref name="craig1832-1885" /> politician from Blackburn in Lancashire. He owned what is now Thwaites Brewery, and sat in the House of Commons from 1875 to 1880.

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.<ref name="thwaites-200">{{cite web |url=http://www.danielthwaites.com/AboutUs/Bicentenary.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091128132353/http://www.danielthwaites.com/AboutUs/Bicentenary.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 November 2009 |title=Celebrating 200 years of brewing |publisher=Thwaites Brewery |access-date=19 December 2010 }}</ref> The younger Daniel inherited the business in partnership with two of his brothers, and became sole owner in 1857.<ref name="thwaites-200" />

At the 1874 general election, he unsuccessfully contested the borough of Blackburn.<ref name="craig1832-1885">{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 |orig-year=1977 |edition= 2nd |year=1989 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-26-4 |page=50 }}</ref> However, he won the seat at a by-election in October 1875 after the death of Henry Master Feilden,<ref name="gazette-1875">{{London Gazette |issue= 24253 |date= 8 October 1875 |page=4769 }}</ref> and was one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Blackburn until his defeat at the 1880 general election.<ref name="craig1832-1885" />

==Family== In 1859, he married Eliza Amelia Gregory (1824–1907). They had two children, Edward George Duckworth Thwaites who was born on 20 March 1861, but died in the August of the same year<ref>{{cite web|last=Hartley |first=Gordon |title=Daniel and Eliza Thwaites |url=http://www.cottontown.org/page.cfm?pageid=3062&language=eng |work=The Thwaites Family |publisher=Cotton Town (Blackburn with Darwen) |access-date=4 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023070538/http://www.cottontown.org/page.cfm?pageid=3062&language=eng |archive-date=23 October 2007 }}</ref> and a daughter, Elma Amy (born 30 July 1864), who married Robert Yerburgh, MP for Chester,<ref>{{cite web|title=Elma Amy Thwaites |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p615.htm#i6145|publisher=The Peerage.com|access-date=13 February 2011|date=15 July 2003}}</ref> 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. After his death, it passed to Elma and her husband.

==References== {{reflist}}

*{{cite book |first=Jehanne |last=Wake |authorlink=Jehanne Wake | title=Thwaites: The Life and Times of Daniel Thwaites Brewery, 1807-2007 | publisher=Scotforth Books | year=2007 | isbn=978-1-904244-46-2}}

==External links== * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-daniel-thwaites | Daniel Thwaites }}

{{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{s-bef | before = Henry Feilden | before2 = William Edward Briggs }} {{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for Blackburn | years = 1875 – 1880 | with = William Edward Briggs }} {{s-aft | after = William Coddington | after2 = William Edward Briggs }} {{s-end}}

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