Josias Miller

(1684-1738)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Miller, Joe, 1684-1738 DNB: Miller, Josias (1683/4-1738), comic actor and singer LBT ID: JoMille1738 VIAF ID: 65506759 LOC ID: n86836132	B/BAP: 1684 DIED: 1738-08-16
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English comic actor whose name was posthumously appropriated to the oft-reprinted Joe Miller's Jests (1739), a work edited by one John Mottley.
REFERENCES TO Josias Miller: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “On the Cockney School of Poetry. No. V” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 5 (April 1819) 97-100 Found 1: ¶ 13 Sir Walter Scott to Jane Scott, 23 March 1825 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1813 Found 1: ¶ 1 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron. Part II” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (March 1830) 421-54 Found 1: ¶ 55 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I 1825 Chapter XI 1826 Found 1: ¶ 51 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. VII” in New Monthly Magazine 81 (September 1847) 83-87 Found 1: ¶ 2 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter XI Found 1: ¶ 173 L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 38 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter III. 1810-1812. Found 1: ¶ 9 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1830 Found 1: ¶ 7