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Joseph took an interest in various sports. He served as President of the Cumberland County Rugby Football League, 1898-1901.

The photograph shows Joseph wearing the medal given to him commemorating that service.


The Obituary from the West Cumberland News:

DEATH OF MR J. HUNTRODS OF WORKINGTON

A Remarkable Career

WE regret to record the death on Saturday night of Mr. Joseph Huntrods, of Alameda, Workington. With the passing of Mr. Huntrods, after an illness of a few weeks, disappears a figure well known not only in Workington but throughout the whole of West Cumberland.

Mr. Huntrods was a typical Yorkshireman, who came to Workington more that fifty years ago, and who by sheer industry, native shrewdness, hard-headedness, and the ability to seize and make the utmost of opportunities that presented themselves when the early developments of the district were taking place, amassed a comfortable fortune before he entered middle age.

He was little more than a youth when he left the moors around Whitby on which he played as a boy. He died in his 72nd year, and had spent therefore more than half a century in the district in which he found full scope for his talents.

Mr. Huntrods, like most self-made men, had his early struggles in Workington. But he worked exceedingly hard, and before he was twenty-five years of age, he had laid the sure foundations of a successful career. He possessed vision. He saw that Workington was to become one of the workshops of the country, and his speculations in property were as sound as they were daring. One thing followed upon another, and before long he was closely associated with several of the minor industries of the district.

He became chairman of the Board of the Workington Bridge and Boiler Company, Ltd., a director of the Whitehaven Hematite Iron and Steel Company, a director of the Townhead, Salter, and Jacktrees iron ore mining companies; and he was for a time in charge of the New Yard Iron Works.

The late Mr. Morrison, one of the richest men in the country, had a large stake in the New Yard Ironworks, and he chose Mr. Huntrods as the instrument to restore, if possible, the fortunes of that concern. That, it is proved, was an impossible task to set a man even of Mr. Huntrods' will and strength of character. But everything else that Mr. Huntrods touched turned out well, and he took an important part in the commercial and industrial life of West Cumberland.