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2 unusual facts about Priestley


Heckmondwike Grammar School

Houses are named after notable people from the West Yorkshire area, and are Brontë (whose colour is blue), Clarke (yellow), Houldsworth (green) and Priestley (red).

Priestley-Forsyth Memorial Library

It was built as an inn in 1820, and purchased in about 1880 by the theologian and scientist Joseph Priestley's great grandson Dr. Joseph Priestley.


Adam Priestley

Priestley made his debut for Gibraltar in a friendly on 3 July 2013 against Scottish Premiership club Hibernian after he was contacted to train with the national squad by head coach Allen Bula.

Bowood House

In the year 2000 Bowood House was designated an ACS National Historic Chemical Landmark in recognition of the importance of Priestley's discovery.

Brian Priestley

Priestley helped arrange Duke Ellington's "Creole Rhapsody" for Cohen in 1977 and has also worked with Digby Fairweather.

Dangerous Corner

Priestley had recently collaborated with Edward Knoblock on the dramatisation of The Good Companions and now wished "to prove that a man might produce long novels and yet be able to write effectively, using the strictest economy, for the stage."

Dominic Thompson

He mysteriously got on well with rival Chris' (Michael Galvin) mother - Margot Warner (Dinah Priestley) and when she died, Dom revealed himself as Chris' illegitimate half brother.

Dr. Priestley

In later books Dr. Priestley becomes an armchair detective and the bulk of the legwork is done by Superintendent Jimmy Waghorn of Scotland Yard and Priestley's secretary and companion, Harold Merefield.

Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air

While working as a companion for Lord Shelburne, Priestley had a great deal of free time to engage in scientific investigations.

Joseph Child Priestley

Priestley was born at No. 31, Somerset Street, Portman Square, Marylebone on 11 January 1862, the son of William Overend Priestley and his wife, Eliza Chambers (the daughter of Robert Chambers, the well known publisher, of Edinburgh).

Justine Priestley

Justine Priestley (born August 28, 1969) is an actress from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Priestley College

Priestley College is named for Joseph Priestley (13 March 1733 – 8 February 1804), a clergyman, chemist and educator who was a pioneer in teaching modern history and the sciences.

Roland Griffiths-Marsh

That same year the book was awarded both the The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction (one of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards), and the Colin Roderick Award, awarded annually for "the best book published in Australia which deals with any aspect of Australian life" along with the H.T. Priestley Memorial Medal.

Samuel Badcock

This, and an article by him the next year on 'Priestley's Letters to Dr. Horsley,' produced two answers from Priestley and pamphlets from J. E. Hamilton and Edward Harwood.

The Good Companions

More recently there has been a reappraisal of this and other Priestley works: a new edition of The Good Companions appeared in October 2007 with a foreword by Dame Judi Dench, accompanying a reappraisal of the various versions by Ronald Harwood, André Previn and Judy Cornwell amongst others.

The Lost Empire

:*Lost Empires, a 1986 television miniseries adapted from the Priestley novel


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