Joseph Harris (astronomer)

For other people with the same name, see Joseph Harris (disambiguation).

Joseph Harris
BornFebruary 1703 (1703-02)
Trefeca, Talgarth, Brecknock, Wales, United Kingdom
Died26 September 1764(1764-09-26) (aged 61)
London, United Kingdom
CitizenshipBritish
OccupationKing'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.

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".

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