Joseph Cockfield

Little appears to be known of Joseph Cockfield, a Quaker poet of independent means who took an interest in botany and corresponded with William Shenstone, John Hoole, John Langhorne, and John Scott of Amwell. After the death of his wife, Scott retired for a time to Cockfield's house at Upton.

TEXT RECORDS:

1761Ode to Health.

PUBLICATIONS:

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Quaker
Dissenter

Education not known

poet

Christian Magazine
Gentleman's Magazine

Rev. William Dodd
John Hoole
Rev. Richard Jago
Rev. John Langhorne
Rev. James Merrick
John Scott of Amwell
William Shenstone

REFERENCE:

Not DNB; not NCBEL.

Pearch, Supplement to Dodsley's Collection (1768-83); Letters in John Nichols, in Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58) 5:753-808; Joseph Smith, A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends' Books (1867); Ian A. Gordon, in Shenstone's Miscellany (1952).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Joseph Cockfield:

1.	1770 ca.  John Scott of Amwell, "Ode XII. To a Friend" Poetical Works (1782) 198-200.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Joseph Cockfield:

1.	1828  John Nichols, in Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58) 5:753n.
2.	1867  Joseph Smith, in A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends' Books (1867) 1:438.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1766  Rev. Richard Jago:   Joseph Cockfield to Weeden Butler, 5 June 1766; in John Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58) 5:766.
2.	1767  John Hawkesworth:   Joseph Cockfield to Weeden Butler, 1 January 1767; in John Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58) 5:773-74.
3.	1768  Rev. Walter Harte:   Joseph Cockfield to Weeden Butler, 5 December 1768; in John Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58) 5:791.
4.	1768  Rev. John Langhorne:   Joseph Cockfield to Weeden Butler, 5 December 1768; in John Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58) 5:790.
5.	1769  Rev. William Dodd:   Joseph Cockfield to Weeden Butler, 18 September 1769; in John Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58) 5:796.
6.	1769  Rev. James Granger:   Joseph Cockfield to Weeden Butler, 26 May 1769; in John Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58) 5:796.
7.	1769  Rev. James Merrick:   Joseph Cockfield to Weeden Butler, 19 January 1769; in John Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58) 5:792.
8.	1769  John Scott of Amwell:   Joseph Cockfield "Written on a Bench that Commands an extensive Prospect" 1769; in John Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58) 5:794.