Joseph Harris | |
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Born | February 1703 |
Died | 26 September 1764 |
Nationality | British |
Citizenship | British |
Occupation | King's Assay Master at the Royal Mint |
Joseph Harris (February 1704 – 1764) was a British blacksmith, astronomer, navigator, economist, natural philosopher, government adviser and King's Assay Master at the Royal Mint.[1]
Theophilus Jones, in A History of the County of Brecknock (1805), says that Joseph Harris, married one of the daughters, and heiress, of Thomas Jones, of Tredustan, and that "little has been recorded beyond the information derived from his monument in the church".