Joseph Huntley

Joseph Huntley was a 19th century biscuit maker and innovator, who lived in the English town of Reading. In 1822 he founded a small biscuit baker and confectioner shop at number 72 London Street.

At this time, London Street was the main stage coach route from London to Bristol, Bath and the West Country. One of the main calling points of the stage coaches was the Crown Inn, opposite Joseph Huntley's shop and he started selling his biscuits to the travellers on the coaches. Because the biscuits were vulnerable to breakage on the coach journey, he started putting them in a metal tin. Out of this innovation grew two businesses: Joseph (the elders) biscuit shop that was to become the famous biscuit manufacturer Huntley & Palmers, and Huntley, Bourne and Stevens, a firm of biscuit tin manufacturers founded by his younger son, also called Joseph. In 1838, Joseph Huntley was forced by ill-health to retire, handing control of the shop to his older son Thomas. Also, Joseph Huntley the son of Dennis Huntley was also a baseball player and started when he was 4 in the year 2000. He had a great eye for baseball and was a really great pitcher. He had gone into the town championships twice and has only won one of the two games. His winning team was the Athletics.

References

*. Reading History Trail. " [http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/radstock/rht/themes/manufacture/handp.html Huntley and Palmers] ". Retrieved October 10, 2005.

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