James Joicey (other)
James Joicey may refer to: * James Joicey, 1st Baron Joicey (1846–1936), mining businessman and politician * James John Joicey James John Joicey FES (28 December 1870 – 10 March 1932) was an English amateur entomologist, who assembled an extensive collection of Lepidoptera in his private research museum, called the Hill Museum, in Witley, Surrey. His ...

James Joicey, 1st Baron Joicey
James Joicey, 1st Baron Joicey JP DL (4 April 1846 – 21 November 1936) was an English industrialist, politician, and aristocrat known primarily for being a coal mining magnate from Durham and a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP). Life James Joicey was born on 4 April 1846 in Tanfield, co. Durham, the second son of George Joicey, partner in an engineering firm in Newcastle, and Dorothy Joicey née Gowland. The family was living in Kip Hill at the time of Joicey's baptism in June 1846. He attended the Anchorage School, Gateshead, and Gainford Academy, near Darlington. Joicey's father died when Joicey was ten years old. Joicey married Amy Robinson in 1879. They had two sons. Widowed in 1881, Joicey married Marguerite Smyles Drever in 1884 and they had two sons and a daughter. Career Aged seventeen years old, Joicey began as a clerk at his uncle James' mining company ''James Joicey & Co., Ltd,'' (founded in 1838, incorporated in 1886) which operated several collierie ...
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