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Life
| [Rev. J. Joyce]; b. 24 Feb., Mildred’s Court, London; worked as a glazier; studied for Unitarian ministry on death of his father; also studied mathematics and Latin; became tutor to the sons of Earl Stanhope; 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; sentenced to imprisonment in Tower of London on a charge of High Treason, 19 May 1794; |
| arraigned at Old Bailey, 25 Oct. 1794; released after acquittal of co-defendants; lost his employment with Stanhope; issued educational works on science and mathematics; with William Nicholson, ed. George Gregory’s Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1809); contrib. to Rees’s Cylopaedia (1802-1819); secretary of the Unitarians and minister of Unitarian chapel at Hampstead at his death, 21 June 1816; left a widow and six children. |
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Works
Publ. incl. 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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References
The Free Dictionary has an entry on Jeremiah Joyce [online].
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Notes
Kith & Kin?: There is no evidence of an Irish connection other than (perhaps) his surname.