Joseph Gascoigne Nightingale (1695–1752), of Enfield, Middlesex, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734.

[3] He was educated at Enfield under Dr Uvedale and was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge on 1 July 1712.

His daughter Elizabeth also survived him and married Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne but died, also in childbirth, in 1755.

Nightingale and his wife are commemorated by a spectacular monument in Westminster Abbey by the sculptor Louis Francois Roubiliac.

It depicts a skeletal Death emerging from his prison to aim a fatal dart at the dying figure of Elizabeth Nightingale while her husband protects her.