JOSEPH (1699-1768).-Anecdotist, _b._ at Kingsclere, Hants, and _ed._ at Winchester and Oxf., he entered the Church, and held various preferments, including a prebend at Durham, and was Prof. of Poetry at Oxf. He wrote an _Essay on Pope's Odyssey_, which gained for him the friendship of the poet, of whose conversation he made notes, collect