Rev. Canon Joseph Whately or Whateley (1730–1797) was an English clergyman and

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Life

He was the youngest brother of the politician

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. 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

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, 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

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. The elder sons were William and Thomas; Thomas, a clergyman, married Isabella Sophia, daughter of Sir William Weller Pepys.

References

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