Joseph Blagrave


Joseph Blagrave was an English astrologer.

Life

Little is known of Blagrave's life. He was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1610, the youngest of four sons of Alexander and Margaret Blagrave; he was a nephew of the mathematician John Blagrave, from whom he is thought to have inherited a small estate in nearby Swallowfield.
He and his wife Susan had a son Joseph in May 1640; Susan died shortly afterwards, on 2 June.
In the article in the Dictionary of National Biography, Charles Henry Coote wrote "His character appears to have been a curious mixture of earnest piety with a profound belief in the virtues of astrology".

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