Joseph Guest
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Joseph Guest was a chainmaker who developed his industry in the Black Country of Central England during the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century. He is most famous for opening the Dudley Guest Hospital in 1871, having bought the buildings from the Earl of Dudley who had built them 22 years earlier with the intention of housing miners who had been blinded in the local mines, but the miners had rejected this offer and the buildings remained empty until Guest took them over.
