William Priestley
William Priestley may refer to: * William Priestley (St Mawes MP) (c.1594–1664), lawyer and member of the English House of Commons. * William Priestley (Louisiana planter) (1771–1838), second son of Dr Joseph Priestley * William Priestley (wool clothier) (1779–1861), Halifax wool clothier, and founder of the Halifax Choral Society *Sir William Overend Priestley (1829–1900), gynaecologist and Conservative politician *Sir William Priestley (Liberal politician) (1859–1932), Liberal politician See also * William Priestly MacIntosh William Priestly MacIntosh (1857 – 9 January 1930) was a sculptor in Sydney, Australia. His works often decorated significant public buildings in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra and major provincial centres. Many of them are now heritage-listed. Ea ...

William Priestley (Liberal Politician)
Sir William Edwin Briggs Priestley (1859–1932) was a British Liberal politician from the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford East. Birth and early life Born on 12 April 1859, he was the second son of Briggs Priestley, a Thornton-born millhand who became a major mill-owner in Bradford, was Mayor of Bradford for 1877–78, and sat as MP for neighbouring Pudsey from 1906 to 1919. His younger brother Arthur was MP for Grantham. He was educated privately and at Harrogate College and, aged 16, received the Literate in Arts diploma awarded by Durham University. He displayed early promise as an artist and was the only candidate in his year to gain a certificate for watercolour painting in the Durham examination. His father and elder brother urged him to concentrate on developing his artistic skills, but he preferred to enter the family firm. His father's retirement and brother's early death left him, at the age of thirty-three, in control of th ...
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William Priestley (St Mawes MP)
William Priestley (c.1594–1664) was a lawyer and member of the Long Parliament, the son of William Priestley (d.1620), a merchant tailor in the City of London. Priestley was admitted to Sidney College, Cambridge, 18 April 1610, and was admitted to the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, 4 August 1612. Following his father's death in 1620, Priestley inherited Camfield House in Essendon; then, in 1627, he acquired the manor of Bedwell Lowthes. The family lived in a house known as Wyldehelle or Weald Hill, on the border of Hatfield and Essendon. Priestley was appointed High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1634. In 1647, during the Long Parliament, William Priestley was appointed as a Recruiter MP for St Mawes in Cornwall, to fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of the Royalist Dr George Parry who had been expelled in January 1644. Priestley himself was cast out of the House A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudim ...
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William Priestley (Louisiana Planter)
William Priestley (7 May 1771 – 1838) was the third child and second son of Joseph Priestley and his wife Mary Wilkinson. He spent some time in France, before migrating to the US in 1793, taking the oath of citizenship on 8 October 1798. In 1801 he moved to Louisiana, with the intention of establishing a school in Point Coupee Parish. Some time between 1804 and 1807, William purchased a sugar plantation on the west bank of the Mississippi River. William Priestley's early life and character William Priestley was born in Basinghall Street, Leeds, in the manse associated with Mill Hill Chapel, where his father was minister. He was educated in Bristol in John Prior Estlin's school, before spending two years at Daventry Academy, his father's alma mater, 1787–89. William Priestley was a mild-tempered and softly-spoken bohemian with long brown hair thrown back over his shoulders, and a passion for nature and music. He was a proficient flautist, who spoke French and German, studied ...
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William Priestley (wool Clothier)
William Priestley (1779–1860) was a Halifax wool clothier and eminent local musician, antiquary and literary gentleman. His strong interest in music, especially German, was manifested in his personal library, which housed many unusual items of German choral music; these formed much of the early repertoire of the Halifax Choral Society Halifax Choral Society is a choir based in the town of Halifax in the English county of West Yorkshire. It is notable for being the oldest amateur choral society in Britain (and possibly in the world) with an unbroken record of performance. Hi ..., which he is credited with founding. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Priestley, William 1779 births 1860 deaths People from Halifax, West Yorkshire 19th-century English people ...
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William Overend Priestley
Sir William Overend Priestley (24 June 1829 – 11 April 1900) was a British physician and Conservative Party politician. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities from 1896 to 1900. Priestley was born in Leeds and trained in Edinburgh as an obstetrician and gynecologist. He moved to London in 1856, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and was knighted in 1893 in recognition of his medical services. Life The eldest son of Joseph Priestley (the nephew of natural philosopher Joseph Priestley) and Mary, daughter of James Overend of Morley, he was born in Churwell, near Leeds, on 24 June 1829. When he was very young, the family moved to Morley Hall. He was educated at Leeds, King's College London, Paris, and the University of Edinburgh. He was admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1852, and in 1853 he graduated M.D. at Edinburgh, taking as his thesis ‘The Development of the Gravid Ut ...
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