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Joseph Addison, English politician and writer, (c1850). Addison (1672-1719) was a friend of Richard Steele and Jonathan Swift and edited The Spectator with Steele in 1711-1712. He served in government as Secretary of State for the Southern Department in 1717-1718. His most famous literary work was the play Cato, published in 1712. Taken from the book Old England's Worthies. (London, c1850).