Joseph Irving FSA Scot (1830–1891) was a Scottish journalist, historian and annalist.
[1] Irving then worked practised as compositor and journalist in Dumfries and Sunderland.
He was for a time on the staff of the Morning Chronicle in London, and in 1854 became editor of the Dumbarton Herald.
After living a few years in Renton, Dumbartonshire, he settled in Paisley in 1880, where he wrote for the Glasgow Herald and other journals.
[1] Irving wrote:[1] He also published: Memoir of the Smolletts of Bonhill; Memoir of the Dennistouns of Dennistoun, 1859; and Dumbarton Burgh Records, 1627–1746, 1860; and a substantive paper on the "Origin and Progress of Burghs in Scotland", in the Transactions of the Archæological Society of Glasgow.