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Joseph Aloysius Hansom (October 26, 1803 — buried July 3 1882) was an English architect who invented the Hansom cab.
Hansom was born in Micklegate, York and baptised as Josephus Aloysius Handsom(e), to a Roman Catholic family. He became an apprentice as a joiner following his father. He married Hannah Glover in 1825 at St Michael-le-Belfrey in York.
Hansom then moved to Halifax, and formed a partnership with Edward Welch, building churches and the Birmingham Town Hall.
Afterwards he moved to manage an estate at Caldecote Hall. It was there that he registered the idea of a patent safety cab on December 23 1834, on the suggestion of his employer. The first Hansom Cab travelled down Hinckley's Coventry Road in 1835. The cab was exported worldwide.
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