JOSEPH

See also:

• WILLIAMS
• WILLIAMS, JOHN (1582-1650)
• WILLIAMS, JOHN (1796-1839)
• WILLIAMS, ROGER (c. 1604–1684)
• WILLIAMS, ROWLAND (1817-1870)
• WILLIAMS, SIR WILLIAM FENWICK

WILLIAMS

See also:

• JOSEPH WILLIAMS BLAKESLEY (18o8–1885)

BLAKESLEY (18o8–1885)  , English divine, was born in London on the 6th of March 18o8, and was educated at St Paul's school, London, and at Corpus Christi and Trinity Colleges, Cambridge . In 1831 he was elected a fellow, and in 1839 a tutor of Trinity . In 1833 he took holy orders, and from 1845 to 1872 held the college living of Ware, Hertfordshire . Over the signature " Hertfordshire Incumbent " he contributed a large number of letters to The Times on the leading social and political subjects of the day, and he also wrote many reviews of books for that paper . In 1863 he was made a canon of Canter-bury, and in 1872 dean of Lincoln . Dean 13lakesley was the author of the first English Life of Aristotle (1839), an edition of Herodotus (1852–1854) in the Bibliotheca Classica, and Four Months in Algeria (1859) . He died on the 18th of April 1885 .