Joseph Addison

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Milestones

1 May 1672

JA , poet, dramatist, periodical essayist, and civil servant, was born at Milston near Amesbury in Wiltshire, one of six children and the eldest one to survive.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Lancelot Addison

17 June 1719

JA , poet, dramatist, periodical essayist, and civil servant, died. His health had declined rapidly; he had lung trouble and had probably suffered a stroke.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Johnson, Samuel. Lives of the English Poets. Editor Hill, George Birkbeck, Oxford at the Clarendon Press.
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Biography

Birth, Background, Education

1 May 1672

JA , poet, dramatist, periodical essayist, and civil servant, was born at Milston near Amesbury in Wiltshire, one of six children and the eldest one to survive.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Lancelot Addison