Joseph Addison (Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries)
Early Life
Joseph Addison was born May 1, 1672, in the English village of Milston, to Jane Gulston and Lancelot Addison. His father was rector of the local Anglican parish. Little is known about Addison’s youth except that his father’s promotion to the deanery at Lichfield Cathedral moved the family in 1683. Addison, probably intending to enter Holy Orders, enrolled in Lancelot’s alma mater, Queen’s College at Oxford University, in 1687.
A year later, Addison, like England itself, headed in a more secular direction. The Glorious Revolution of 1688 ended the...
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