(1731–1807) was an English clergyman and academic, and one of the critics of Edward Gibbon.
Joseph Disney, M.A., vicar of Cranbrook and Appledore with the chapel of Ebony in Kent, was born 29 September 1731.
He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School under Mr. Creech, and entered as a pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge on 26 January 1748.
In 1777 he became vicar of Pluckley in Kent, a living in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury, where he died on 28 March 1807.
On 9 January 1782, at the age of 50, he married Anna Maria Smyth, herself aged 45,[2] third daughter of John Smyth (1686-1746), a landowner at Chart Sutton in Kent, and his wife Elizabeth Whitfield (1711-1786).