Joseph jackson lister biography

For the zoologist, see Joseph Jackson Lister (naturalist).

Joseph Jackson ListerFRSFRMS (11 January 1786 – 24 October 1869) was an English opticist and physicist best known for being the father of Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister.^[1]

Life

In 1705, Thomas Lister, a farmer and maltster, of Bingley, Yorkshire, England, married Hannah, daughter of a yeoman (an independent small farmer).

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They joined the Society of Friends, becoming Quakers, as were most of their descendants. They had a son, Joseph, who left Yorkshire in about 1720 to become a tobacconist in Aldersgate Street in the City of London.

Joseph's youngest son, christened John, was born in 1737. He was apprenticed to a watchmaker, Isaac Rogers, in 1752, and followed that trade on his own account in Bell Alley, Lombard Street from 1759 to 1766.

He then took over his father's tobacco business, but gave it up in 1769 in favour of his father-in-law Stephen Jackson's business as a wine-merch Joseph Lister - Wikipedia HYPYF