# Joseph Keble

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**Joseph Keble** (1632 – 28 August 1710) was an English [barrister](/source/Barrister) and [law reporter](/source/Law_report). As well as recording more than four thousand sermons preached in the chapel of [Gray's Inn](/source/Gray's_Inn), Keble reported every case heard by the [Court of King's Bench](/source/Court_of_King's_Bench_(England)) from 1661 until his death. Although he was in court every day, he was never known to have had a [brief](/source/Brief_(law)) to represent a client.

## Life

Keble was the son of [Richard Keble](/source/Richard_Keble), [Commissioner of the Great Seal](/source/Commissioner_of_the_Great_Seal) from 1649 to 1654. He was born in 1632 in the parish of [St Giles-in-the-Fields](/source/St_Giles-in-the-Fields), London and educated at the parish school in [Holborn](/source/Holborn). He became a member of [Gray's Inn](/source/Gray's_Inn) in 1647. He attended the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford), [matriculating](/source/Matriculation) from [All Souls College](/source/All_Souls_College) in 1651 and obtaining a [Bachelor of Civil Law](/source/Bachelor_of_Civil_Law) degree in 1654. He was also made a [Fellow](/source/Oxbridge_Fellow) of [Jesus College, Oxford](/source/Jesus_College,_Oxford) by the Parliamentary commissioners in 1648. He was [called to the bar](/source/Called_to_the_bar) in 1653.[1]

After becoming a barrister, he was never known to have a [brief](/source/Brief_(law)) to represent a client in court.[2] However, because the "disease of reporting was so strong upon him", he went to the [Court of King's Bench](/source/Court_of_King's_Bench_(England)) every day from 1661 until his death in 1710 and wrote reports on the cases heard by the Court.[2] He was regarded as a law reporter of considerable note "and of almost incredible industry."[2] Many of his case reports were published as *Reports in the court of king's bench...from the 12th to the 30th year of the reign of Charles II* (1685).[1] More than 150 handwritten folios and quartos of case reports were left unpublished at his death.[2] His other writings included *An Explanation of the Laws against Recusants* (1681), and *An Assistance to Justices of the Peace* (1683).[1] He also recorded more than four thousand sermons preached in the chapel of Gray's Inn.[2]

Keble had one of the first homes at [North End, Hampstead](/source/North_End,_Hampstead), where he lived for part of the week to benefit from the clean air.[3] He died on 28 August 1710 in Holborn and was buried at [Tuddenham](/source/Tuddenham), [Suffolk](/source/Suffolk) where he was a property owner.[1]

## References

1. Handley, Stuart (January 2008). ["Keble, Joseph (1632–1710)"](http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15232). [doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15232](https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/15232). Retrieved 11 February 2009.

1. Chalmers, Alexander (1810). [*A history of the colleges, halls, and public buildings, attached to the University of Oxford, including the lives of the founders*](https://archive.org/details/ahistorycollege02chalgoog). Collingwood & Co. pp. [187](https://archive.org/details/ahistorycollege02chalgoog/page/n223)–188. Retrieved 12 February 2009.

1. Baker, TFT, Bolton Diane K, Croot Patricia E C. ["Hampstead: North End, Littleworth, and Spaniard's End A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9, Hampstead, Paddington."](https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol9/pp66-71). *British History Online*. Victoria County History, 1989. Retrieved 24 February 2025.

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