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two daughters — Mary and Alice. Joule's father, who was an 

 invalid for nine years before his death, died at the age of 

 seventy-four, in 1858. He was wealthy, owning -the Salford 

 Brewery, which he sold in 1854. Joule himself never took 

 any active part in the management of the brewery. 



Joule and his elder brother were educated at their 

 father's house, Broom Hill, near Manchester. They were 

 constant companions and greatly attached to each other. 

 Joule was delicate and under treatment for the spine. This 

 attachment lasted till Joule's death (1889), as did also their 

 companionship with interruptions. Mr. B. St. J. B. Joule 

 kept a diary from early life, and has kindly furnished the 

 author with all the extracts referring to his brother. 



The first entry refers to their going, on September 15, 

 1830 (a day memorable for the opening of the Manchester 

 and Liverpool Railway and the death of Mr. Huskisson, 

 who expired in the Parsonage at Eccles), " into a field near 

 Eccles to see the first trains which travelled between Liver- 

 pool and Manchester, and to their riding on several Saturday 

 afternoons to a place between Eccles and Patricroft to watch 

 the two trains (one on each set of rails) passing and repassing 

 for the amusement of passengers to Newton-in-the-Willows 

 and back." Joule was then eleven years of age ; and the 

 brothers were under the private tuition of a resident master, 

 S. T. Porter. Their next tutor was Mr. Frederick Tappen- 

 den, who came from a military school in the south, December 

 17, 1832, and left them in December, 1834. They rode their 

 ponies together and played tricks together ; among others 

 passing electric shocks on friends and servants, making 

 them as strong as possible with the poor apparatus then 

 in vogue, and encouraging their subjects by standing in 

 line with them and professedly receiving the same shocks^ 



