| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Spence, Joseph, 1699-1768 NRA: Spence Joseph (1699-1768) Anecdotist and Friend of Alexander Pope DNB: Spence, Joseph [pseud. Sir Harry Beaumont] (1699-1768), literary scholar and anecdotist LBT ID: JoSpenc1768 VIAF ID: 56625623 LOC ID: n50021261  | B/BAP:   1699-04-28 DIED: 1768-08-20  | 
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English essayist, friend of Pope, Oxford Professor of Poetry, and patron of Stephen Duck
                        and Thomas Blacklock; author of Polymetis: or, An Enquiry concerning the
                            Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets, and the Remains of the Antient
                            Artists (1747).  | |