Joseph Whately or Whateley (1730–1797) was an English clergyman and Gresham Professor of Rhetoric.

Life

He was the youngest brother of the politician

Thomas Whately Thomas Whately (1726 – 26 May 1772), an English politician and writer, was a Member of Parliament (1761–1768) who served as Commissioner on the Board of Trade, as Secretary to the Treasury under Lord Grenville, and as Under-secretary of S ...

. He was vicar of Widford,

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, from 1768 to 1790, and prebendary of

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from 1793 to 1797. He was also a lecturer at Gresham College, where he was appointed Professor of Rhetoric in 1757. Whately received the degree of D.C.L. from Oxford University on 9 July 1793, and died on 13 March 1797.

Family

Whately married Jane, daughter of the Member of Parliament

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.historyofparliamentonline.org, ''Halsey, Joseph Thompson (1774-1818), of Gaddesden Park, Hemel Hempstead, Herts''.
/ref> Their nine children included as the youngest

Richard Whately Richard Whately (1 February 1787 – 8 October 1863) was an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian who also served as a reforming Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland), Church of Ireland Archbishop of ...

, and five daughters. The youngest daughter died on 17 August 1866, widow of Sir David Barry. The third son changed his surname in 1805, and was known then as Joseph Thompson Halsey. The elder sons were William and Thomas; Thomas, a clergyman, married Isabella Sophia, daughter of Sir William Weller Pepys.

References

Attribution * {{DEFAULTSORT:Whately, Joseph 1730 births 1797 deaths 18th-century English Anglican priests People from Widford, Hertfordshire