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Joseph Wilcocks (19 December 1673 – 28 February 1756) was an English churchman bishop of Gloucester and bishop of Rochester and dean of Westminster.Wilcocks was the son of Joseph Wilcocks a physician of Bristol. He entered Merchant Taylors’ School on 11 September 1684 and matriculated from St John’s College Oxford on 25 February 1692. From 1692 until 1703 he held a demyship at Magdalen College and a fellowship from 1703 until 15 February 1722. He graduated B.A. on 31 October 1695 M.A.