Working Life
Backhouse became a partner in the family banking firm of Backhouse & Co, but did not take an active part in the business. Instead, he worked as a minister for the Quaker-run Society of Friends from 1854 and was also active in establishing the Sunderland Indigent Sick Society, the British School in Borough Road, Sunderland, and the old Athenaeum and Reformatories.
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