Joseph Woodhouse obituary

My father, Joseph Woodhouse, who has died aged 97, was the chief lighting engineer for Sheffield, a lay preacher and trustee in the Unitarian church, and a lifelong pacifist who was a conscientious objector in the second world war.

Joseph was born in Sheffield to Charles, a steel roller, and his wife, Ellen (nee Coole). The Unitarian minister had to persuade Charles to let his son take up a scholarship to Central grammar school against the expectation that he would leave education at 14 to earn a living.