{{short description|British priest}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} '''Joseph Whately''' or '''Whateley''' (1730–1797) was an English clergyman and Gresham Professor of Rhetoric.

==Life== He was the youngest brother of the politician Thomas Whately. He was vicar of Widford, Hertfordshire, from 1768 to 1790, and prebendary of Bristol Cathedral from 1793 to 1797.<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Whately, Richard}}</ref> He was also a lecturer at Gresham College, where he was appointed Professor of Rhetoric in 1757.<ref>[http://www.gresham.ac.uk/gresham-professor-of-rhetoric gresham.ac.uk, ''Gresham Professor of Rhetoric''.]</ref>

Whately received the degree of D.C.L. from Oxford University on 9 July 1793, and died on 13 March 1797.<ref name="DNB"/>

==Family== Whately married Jane, daughter of the Member of Parliament William Plumer.<ref name="Halsey">[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/halsey-joseph-thompson-1774-1818 historyofparliamentonline.org, ''Halsey, Joseph Thompson (1774-1818), of Gaddesden Park, Hemel Hempstead, Herts''.]</ref> Their nine children included as the youngest Richard Whately, and five daughters.<ref>{{ODNBweb|id=29176|title=Whately, Richard|first=Richard|last=Brent}}</ref> The youngest daughter died on 17 August 1866, widow of Sir David Barry.<ref name="DNB"/> The third son changed his surname in 1805, and was known then as Joseph Thompson Halsey.<ref name="Halsey"/> The elder sons were William and Thomas; Thomas, a clergyman, married Isabella Sophia, daughter of Sir William Weller Pepys.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Elizabeth Jane Whately|author2=Richard Whately|title=Life and Correspondence of Rich. Whately, Late Archbishop of Dublin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G9U7AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA3|accessdate=14 December 2012|year=1868|page=3}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thepeerage.com/p22922.htm#i229215|title = Person Page}}</ref>

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