John Upton (1707–2 December 1760) was an English clergyman, academic and critic.
An important early editor of Edmund Spenser, he is best known for the notes in his 1758 edition of Spenser's great romance epic The Faerie Queene, which was first published in 1590 (books 1-3) and 1596 (books 4-6).
Upton was educated at Oxford University, where he was a college fellow.
[1] Born at Taunton, he was the second son of James Upton and his wife Mary Proctor.
On 19 January 1637 he was admitted prebendary of Rochester, and he also held the sinecure rectory of Landrillo, Denbigh.