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Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison, oil painting by Michael Dahl, 1719; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Joseph Addison attended two colleges at the University of Oxford. He first matriculated at Queen’s College in May 1687. In 1689, he was elected as a Demy (scholar) to Magdalen College, where he later served as a fellow from 1697 to 1711.1