In 1819 Joseph Crosfield married Elizabeth Goad from the village of Baycliffe in the Furness area of Lancashire.
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Joseph Crosfield (5 October 1792 – 16 February 1844) was a businessman who established a soap and chemical manufacturing business in Warrington, which was in the historic county of Lancashire and is now in the ceremonial county of Cheshire.
Crosfield kept meticulous ordered note books and field specimens, some of which are kept at the British Geological Survey in Keyworth, Nottingham.
Rowntree was the scion of two distinguished Quaker families the Rowntrees and the Harveys, his wife Anna was a member of another prominent Quaker family, the Crosfields.
Crosfield was also Chairman of National Playing Fields Association and served as a School Governor for Highgate School from 1929-1930.
When Lever Brothers produced a rival process Crosfield took them to court over patent infringement, which Crosfield lost.