Joseph Gurney (15 October 1804 – 12 August 1879), was a British shorthand writer and biblical scholar, notable for his publications and work with the Religious Tract Society.
He first attended an important committee of the House of Commons in 1822, and continued to take notes till 1872.
He was for more than fifty years a member of the committee of the Religious Tract Society, and latterly its treasurer.
Gurney died at Tyndale Lodge, Wimbledon Common, on 12 August 1879, and was interred at the Norwood Cemetery.
The best known of these was The Annotated Paragraph Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments according to the authorised version, with explanatory Notes, Prefaces to the several Books, and an entirely new selection of references to parallel and illustrative Passages, two vols., London, 1850–60, published by the Religious Tract Society.