Personal Life
Sturge married, first, in 1834, Eliza, sister of John Cropper. After her death, in 1846 he married Hannah, daughter of Barnard Dickinson and they had five children. Fellow Quaker Stephen Henry Hobhouse wrote a biography in 1919 titled Joseph Sturge, his life and work.
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