Joseph Gascoigne

Joseph Gascoigne Nightingale (1695–1752), of Enfield, Middlesex, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734. Early life Nightingale was baptized as Gascoigne on 19 December 1695, the eldest son of Rev. Joseph Gascoigne, vicar of Enfield, and his wife Anne Theobald, daughter of Francis Theobald of Barking, Suffolk and his wife Anne Nightingale, who was the sister of Sir Thomas Nightingale, 2nd Baronet. He was educated at Enfield under Dr Uvedale and was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge on 1 July 1712. In 1721 he succeeded his father and in 1722 he succeeded his younger brother Robert to the estates worth nearly £300,000 of Sir Robert Nightingale, 4th Baronet. He thereupon assumed the additional name of Nightingale.