Joseph Paice (1728–1810) was an English merchant, known for his charitable works. Early life His father was Nathaniel Paice (died c.1768), and his mother Mary, who died when he was young, a sister of Thomas Edwards. He was the grandson of Joseph Paice (c.1658-1735), Member of Parliament for , and on good terms with Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet. Benefactor His prospective support for the Mission House at Stockbridge, Massachusetts involved Paice in transatlantic correspondence in the 1750s. He heard from Jonathan Edwards in 1752; and Elisha Williams had Joseph Dwight deliver to William Pepperrell a letter the following year, prompting Pepperrell to wrote to Paice and give the other side of Dwight's clash with Edwards. Thomas Edwards wrote a sonnet, encouraging Paice to marry. In 1757, Edwards died, and Pitzhanger Manor came to Paice and another nephew, Nathaniel Mason. They sold it to the lawyer King Gould. From the late 1770s, Paice began to support the orphaned Gibson family; their mother Mary Rodbard, who had married the Cheapside merchant Frederick Gibson, was a granddaughter of Joseph Paice MP through his daughter Anne. On 6 July 1786 he had dinner with John Adams, at the Clapham house of William Smith. Adams recorded a joke he told, about a natural philosopher and a Scotsman. Paice gave Charles Lamb a position in his counting-house. It occurred through a request from Thomas Coventry, thought to have been prompted by Samuel Salt. Coventry then secured Lamb a clerkship at the South Sea House. Paice introduced Lamb to Francis Baring, who in 1798 found him a place at East India House. Later life Around 1795 Paice retired from business. In later life he lived with Frederick Gibson and his family in Bread Street Hill; then moved out to St Mary Newington. He was in the Paragon Building there on the New Kent Road in 1800, when he was made an executor and beneficiary in the will of Mary Wilkes, daughter of John Wilkes. He had been with John Nichols in the very small group of personal friends who attended the funeral of Wilkes in January 1798. He finally lived in the Rodney Buildings in St Mary Newington. Paice was unmarried; Lamb in his essay "Modern Gallantry" states that he had courted Susan Winstanley of Clapton, who died young. A sermon for his death in 1810 was preached by Thomas Tayler of the Carter Lane chapel,