Joseph Spence was a historian, literary scholar and anecdotist, most famous for his collection of anecdotes that are an invaluable resource for historians of 18th-century English literature.
- Occupation
- historian, writer, classical scholar, landscape architect
- Position held
- Oxford Professor of Poetry, Regius Professor of History, University of Oxford
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- April 28, 1699
- Died
- August 20, 1768, August 20, 1748
