Life
1763-1816 [Rev. J. Joyce]; b. 24 February, Mildred’s Court London; became glazier; studied for Unitarian ministry on death of his father; also mathematics and Latin; tutor to the sons of Earl Stanhope; became mbr. of Society for Constitutional Reform and London Corresponding Society; fnd., Jan. 1792; arrested at Stanhope’s house in Kent on a charge of ’treasonable practices’, 4 May 1794; and sentence to imprisonment in Tower of London on a charge of High Treason, 19 May; . arraigned at Old Bailey, 25 Oct.; released after acquittal of co-defendants; lost employment with Stanhope; issued educational works on science and mathematics; ed. George Gregory’s Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1809) with William Nicholson; contrib. to Rees’s Cylopaedia (1802-1819); secretary of the Unitarians and minister of Unitarian chapel at Hampstead at his death, 21 June; left a widow and six children.
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Works
[or namesake,] Complete Analysis and Abridgement
of Dr. Adam Smith’s Enquiry [... &c.] (1797; 3rd edn. 1821);
also Scientific Dialogues (1846) [Univ. of Wales
Library].
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Notes
The Free Dictionary has an entry on Jeremiah Joyce [online].
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)