Joseph Blakesley
Joseph Williams Blakesley (6 March 1808 – 18 April 1885) was an English clergyman.[1] At university he became a member of the "Apostles Club", along with Alfred Tennyson and other literary names.In 1833 he took holy orders and from 1845 to 1872 held the college living of Ware, Hertfordshire.Over the signature "Hertfordshire Incumbent" he contributed a large number of letters to The Times on the leading social and political subjects of the day, and he also wrote many reviews of books for that paper.Blakesley was the author of the first English Life of Aristotle (1839), an edition of Herodotus (1852–1854) in the Bibliotheca Classica, and Four Months in Algeria (1859).