Joseph Wasse

Joseph Wasse (1672–1738) was an English cleric and classical scholar.

Life He was born in Yorkshire, and entered Queens' College, Cambridge as a sizar in 1691. He became bible clerk in 1694, scholar in 1695, was B.A. in 1694, fellow and M.A. in 1698, B.D. in 1707.

In 1711 Wasse was presented to the rectory of Aynhoe, Northamptonshire, by Thomas Cartwright, with whom he was on close terms. He passed most of his time in his library at Aynhoe, and, according to William Whiston, Richard Bentley thought him the second scholar in England. he had attended experimental philosophy lectures by Roger Cotes and William Whiston at Cambridge.

Wasse became a proselyte to Samuel Clarke's Arian opinions, and in 1719 published Reformed Devotions, dedicated to Cartwright and his wife.