Darwin Correspondence Project

Manufacturer of steel files, saws, and tools. Of Sheffield. Nephew of Thomas Brittain. Member of the advisory committee of the Board of Trade. Conducted an enquiry into the working hours and wages in the hardware and iron trades under the authority of the French government in 1876. Published British trade and foreign competition (1877). Vice-president of the economic science and statistics section at the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in 1879. One of the earliest tariff reformers.