Jeremiah Joyce

He did work on St Clement Danes church and the Middle Temple; and in 1778 took on his own son John as apprentice.

[8] Before the death of his father, and with the support of his brother, Joshua, and Hugh Worthington, he studied for the Unitarian ministry at New College, Hackney.

As well as hiring Joyce, he dismissed his governesses, and required his daughter Hester Stanhope, age 14, to mind turkeys on a village green.

[15] He joined the Essex Street Chapel congregation, and formed a long-standing relationship with Theophilus Lindsey, its founder.

[16][17][18] Ahead of the penal transportation of the Scottish Martyrs to Liberty and Maurice Margarot of the LCS, Joyce on 28 March 1794 proposed an address of support from the SCI.

It contained the sentiment "A full and fair Representation of the People of Great Britain we seek, with all the ardour of men and Britons".

[20] A dozen activists were arrested in May, followed by the passing of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act 1794, and Joyce was one of those picked up.

On 12 May Thomas Hardy of the LCS was taken into custody at home by Bow Street Runners and King's Messengers.

Shortly after that an ambiguous letter from Joyce to John Horne Tooke of the SCI, written within hours of Hardy's arrest.

It was a sermon from earlier in the year, but contained also an appendix consisting of his examination by the Privy Council, and that of Bonney who was released at the same time.

[36] Joyce was released on 1 December 1794, and was welcomed back to Chevening, the village being lit up; if not by the rector, the Rev.

The troubled Stanhope household, where the father's insistence on home education was contentious, started to break up over the period.

Daughter Lady Hester in the end moved out to live at Walmer with her uncle William Pitt the Younger, the Prime Minister, in 1803 according to John Ehrman; where he reportedly told her Tom Paine was "quite in the right" but he couldn't risk revolution.

[40][41] At this period, Theophilus Lindsey had hopes to find Joyce a full place as Unitarian minister; but he found that impossible, as he explained to John Rowe (1764–1832).

[42][43] In later life he lived in Holly Terrace, Highgate, and succeeded Rochemont Barbauld as minister of a small Unitarian congregation at Rosslyn Hill.

[2] Joyce married in 1796 Elizabeth Harding, niece of Captain George Fagg (Slouney), who as a privateer of the Anglo-French War (1778–1783) ran the blockade of Gibraltar in 1780, commanding the Buck of Folkestone.

[29][58] The youngest of his six children, Hannah, born the year before Joyce's death, was fostered by his friend William Shepherd.