Joseph Hubert Priestley (; 5 October 188331 October 1944) was a British lecturer in
botany
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at
University College
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,
Bristol
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, and professor of botany and
pro-vice-chancellor at the
University of Leeds
, mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased
, established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds
, ...
. He has been described as a gifted teacher who attracted many graduate research students to Leeds. He was the eldest child of a
Tewkesbury
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head teacher and the elder brother of
Raymond Priestley
Sir Raymond Edward Priestley (20 July 1886 – 24 June 1974) was an English geologist and early Antarctic explorer. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham, where he helped found The Raymond Priestley Centre on the shores ...
, the British geologist and
Antarctic explorer
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. He was educated at his father's school and University College, Bristol. In 1904, he was appointed a lecturer in botany at the University College and published research on
photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that, through cellular respiration, can later be released to fuel the organism's activities. Some of this chemical energy is stored i ...
and the effect of electricity on plants. He was elected a fellow of the
Linnean Society
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, and in 1910, he was appointed consulting botanist to the
Bath and West and Southern Counties Society.
In 1911, he married Marion Ethel Young at Bristol, and in the same year, he was appointed professor of botany at the University of Leeds. He served in the
British Army
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during
World War I
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, receiving a commission as a
captain
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. In August 1914, he was sent to France with the
British Expeditionary Force, and for the remainder of the war, he was seconded to the
Intelligence Corps. He was twice
mentioned in dispatches
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, and awarded the
Distinguished Service Order
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(DSO) in 1917 and the in 1919. On his return to Leeds, he embarked on a programme of research that encompassed the structure and development of the growing points of plants, the effect of light on growth,
cork
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** Cork (plug), a cylindrical or conical object used to seal a container
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* Cork (city)
** Metropolitan Cork, also known as G ...
formation, and
plant propagation
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Propagation typically occurs as a step i ...
.
In 1922, he was appointed
dean
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of the faculty of science, and in 1925, he was elected president of the
Yorkshire Naturalists' Union
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. In the following year, he taught a
postgraduate course at the
University of California
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,
Berkeley
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. He was an active member of the
British Association
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, the
British Bryological Society
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History
The Society developed f ...
, and the
Forestry Commission
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. In 1935, he was elected provicechancellor, serving in that role until 1939. He was the first
warden
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''Warden'' is etymologically identic ...
to the male students at Leeds and organised many social activities, including a staff dancing class and "botanical parties". He was a passionate
cricket
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player and captained the staff team at Leeds. He died after a long illness at his home in
Weetwood
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, Leeds.
Early life
![Henrietta Priestley, née Rice, and daughters](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Henrietta_Priestley%2C_n%C3%A9e_Rice%2C_and_daughters.jpg)
Priestley was born on at
Abbey House school,
Tewkesbury
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,
Gloucestershire
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, and baptised at the
Methodist
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chapel in Tewkesbury on 6November 1883. He was the eldest child of eight children of Joseph Edward Priestlay, then head teacher of the school, and Henrietta, . His mother was the second surviving daughter of Richard Rice of Tewkesbury. They had met at the Methodist chapel, and had married on 22December 1881 at
Tettenhall
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History
Tettenhall's name derives fr ...
parish church, now in the city of
Wolverhampton
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. The Priestley family name was spelt originally as "Priestlay". However, in the early 1900s, the name changes to "Priestley" and both spellings appear on family graves in Tewkesbury Cemetery.
In 1875, Priestley's father graduated from the
University of London
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with a
second class Bachelor of Arts
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degree in
animal physiology
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. He was appointed head teacher of Abbey House school following the death of his father, Joseph Priestley, on 13November 1876, and remained as head until his retirement in 1917. He moved to Bristol and joined the staff of Grace, Darbyshire, and Todd, a local firm of
accountant
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s. He died on 9December 1921, aged 67, at a nursing home in
Clifton
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, and was interred in Canford Cemetery,
Westbury-on-Trym
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, near Bristol. Henrietta died on 24 September 1929, aged 76, at
Bishopston, Bristol.
Priestley's brothers, Stanley and
Donald
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, died on active service during
World War I
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. Stanley left Tewkesbury in 1912 to follow Priestley to the
University of Leeds
, mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased
, established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds
, ...
where he became a member of the
Officers' Training Corps
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. Donald was a commercial traveller working for their mother's family firm, William Rice and Company, corn millers and seed merchants at Tewkesbury. His brother,
Raymond
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, was a
geologist
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in
Robert Falcon Scott
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's illfated
Terra Nova Expedition
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to the
Antarctic
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from 1910 to 1913.
Priestley's sisters were Edith, Doris, Joyce, and Olive. Edith married
Charles Seymour "Silas" Wright and Doris married
Thomas Griffith "Grif" Taylor, both of whom were members of Scott's expedition. Doris first met Taylor in July 1913, and at that time, was acting as Priestley's secretary. Joyce married Herbert William Merrell, who served with the Gloucester Regiment in World War I, and in later life, was an accountant on the staff of the University of Leeds.
The family were Methodists, and on Sundays, Priestley was required to attend two religious services and
Sunday school. They were also passionate
cricket
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players. Stanley was regarded as a good
bowler and Donald played for Gloucestershire from 1909 to 1910. Priestley himself would later play for the
University College
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,
Bristol
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, and captain the staff team at the University of Leeds.
Education
Priestley, along with his brothers, was educated at his father's school in Tewkesbury. He passed his
Cambridge Local Examination in December 1897 with unremarkable third class honours. In July 1898, he passed an elementary examination in
Pitman shorthand
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, before taking a
physical geography
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course at the Science Hall on Oldbury Road, Tewkesbury. He passed this course with first class honours in June 1899. In February 1900, he gained a first class pass in the University of London matriculation examination. In July 1901, the University College, Bristol, awarded him a
Capper Pass
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metallurgical
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Metallurgy encompasses both the sc ...
scholarship of twentyfive pounds (equivalent to pounds in 2019).
Though primarily a botany student, Priestley took courses in chemistry and physics at Bristol, and in August 1901, he gained a first class pass in the University of London intermediate science examination. In November 1902, the college awarded him a John Stewart Scholarship, and in the following month, he was elected to the committee of the college's chemical society. In November 1903, Priestley passed his final
BSc
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examination with
first class honours
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in botany. In the same month, he was awarded a probationary
bursary
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worth seventy pounds, by the
Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851
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, to study the
cell biology
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of
rust fungi
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An estimated 168 rust genera and approximately 7,000 species, more than half of which belong to the genus ''Puccinia'', are currently a ...
.
Career
In November 1904, Priestley was made an associate of the college. In January 1905, he was appointed temporary lecturer in botany, in succession to George Brebner, who had died on 23 December 1904. This appointment was made permanent by the college council on 19July 1905 at an annual salary of £120 (). He and Raymond, who was then studying geography at the college, lodged together for two years on the top floor of a Bristol
boarding house. They lived on fifty
shilling
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s a week and lunch would often consist of a bun and a glass of milk.
Priestley's early research examined the process and products of
photosynthesis
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. In 1906, he published a
paper
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with Francis Usher, later a
reader
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in
colloid chemistry
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at the University of Leeds, that postulated that
chlorophyll
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''
in vitro
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'' is
reduced to
formaldehyde
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in the presence of
carbon dioxide
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and light. Vernon Herbert Blackman, professor of botany at the University of Leeds whom Priestley would succeed in 1911, considered the evidence unsatisfactory. Charles Horne Warner, working in Blackman's laboratory, found that the formation of formaldehyde was independent of the presence of carbon dioxide, and in fact, formaldehyde was formed as a byproduct of the oxidation of chlorophyll.
In 1908, the college received a grant of fifty pounds from the
Board of Agriculture to enable the biology department to conduct research on the effect of electricity on plants. In an initial experiment, Priestley ran electrical wires above plants in greenhouses at
Bitton
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,
South Gloucestershire
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, to demonstrate that electricity could stimulate the growth of the plants. At the time, it was thought that an
electric current
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could increase plant respiration,
transpiration
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, and starch formation. He noted that young wheat leaves from electrified plots were, "in the opinion of many observers, darker green than the control plants." He suggested that the darker green could result from a continuous amount of
nitrate
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s being added to the soil, in a similar manner to the oxidation of atmospheric nitrogen by
lightning
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. In one soil test, he found three times the amount of nitrogen in the soil than in the
control
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plots. However, it is now generally accepted that there are no beneficial effects from exposing plants to electric fields.
![Botany House south side](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Botany_House_south_side.jpg)
In 1906, Priestley was elected as honorary secretary to the
Bristol Naturalists' Society. He was also president of the college's botanical club and was a local secretary for the Cotteswold Naturalists' field club. He joined the Bristol
Fabian Society
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and was president of the
Montpelier adult school
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. In January 1908, he was elected a fellow of the
Linnean Society
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. In 1910, he was appointed consulting botanist to the
Bath and West and Southern Counties Society, after
William Carruthers had resigned in the previous year. In 1911, Priestley was appointed professor of botany at the University of Leeds, succeeding Blackman, who had left to join the Institute of Vegetable Physiology at
Imperial College London
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.
Otto Vernon Darbishire was appointed to replace Priestley as lecturer in botany at the University of Bristol. In 1914, Priestley was appointed an examiner in the
Natural Sciences Tripos
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at Cambridge.
Priestley's university work was interrupted by World War I. He had been in command of the University Officers' Training Corps at both Bristol and Leeds, and on 9August 1914, he was sent to France with the
British Expeditionary Force. In his absence,
Walter Garstang
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, then professor of zoology at the University of Leeds, assumed responsibility for the botany department. For the remainder of the war, he served in the
Intelligence Brigade of the
general staff
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until January 1919. He was twice
mentioned in dispatches
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, and awarded the
Distinguished Service Order
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(DSO) in the King's
1917 Birthday Honours, and in 1919, the ().
On his return to Leeds, Priestley embarked on a programme of research that encompassed the structure and development of the growing points of plants, the effect of light on growth,
cork
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Materials
* Cork (material), an impermeable buoyant plant product
** Cork (plug), a cylindrical or conical object used to seal a container
***Wine cork
Places Ireland
* Cork (city)
** Metropolitan Cork, also known as G ...
formation, and
plant propagation
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Propagation typically occurs as a step i ...
. He had been influenced by the work of
Albert Frey-Wyssling on
cell wall
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s and
William Henry Lang
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Life
The son of Thomas Bils ...
's research on
plant morphology
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and anatomy. In 1924, he was elected president of the
Yorkshire Naturalists' Union
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and was a member of the
British Bryological Society
The British Bryological Society is an academic society dedicated to bryology, which encourages the study of bryophytes ( mosses, liverworts and hornworts). It publishes the peer-reviewed ''Journal of Bryology''.
History
The Society developed f ...
. In December 1926, he travelled to
California
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to teach a
postgraduate course at the
University of California
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,
Berkeley
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* George Berkeley (1685–1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher
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.
Otis Freeman Curtis came to Leeds from
Cornell University
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,
Ithaca
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Ithaca, Ithaka ...
,
New York, to cover his fourmonth absence.
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Priestley was a member of the
British Association
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and was president of the botany section in 1932. He attended many of the association's annual meetings, including the 1924 meeting in Toronto,
Ontario
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, where he took the opportunity to visit the
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
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at
Saanich,
British Columbia
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. In 1929, he and Lorna Scott, coauthor of Priestley's textbook ', attended the association's meeting in
South Africa
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, based at the universities of
Cape Town
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and
Witwatersrand
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,
Johannesburg
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. Along with five hundred other scientists, they boarded the
Union‑Castle steamship
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''Llandovery Castle'', on 27June 1929 at the
Port of Tilbury
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. They stopped at
Saint Helena
Saint Helena () is a British overseas territory located in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote volcanic tropical island west of the coast of south-western Africa, and east of Rio de Janeiro in South America. It is one of three constitu ...
, in the
South Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the "Old World" of Africa, Europe an ...
, to the west of southwestern Africa, where they collected a number of
bryophyte
The Bryophyta s.l. are a proposed taxonomic division containing three groups of non-vascular land plants (embryophytes): the liverworts, hornworts and mosses. Bryophyta s.s. consists of the mosses only. They are characteristically limited in ...
specimens.
In 1922, Priestley was appointed
dean
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of the faculty of science, and later, became the first
warden
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''Warden'' is etymologically identic ...
to the male students at Leeds. On 1July 1935, he succeeded Paul Barbier, professor of French, as
pro-vice-chancellor of the university. Matthew John Stewart, professor of
paleontology
Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...
, succeeded him in June 1939. In 1941, the
senate
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
appointed Priestley as provicechancellor for a second term, after
Bernard Mouat Jones
Bernard Mouat Jones DSO (27 November 188211 September 1953)The ODNB records it as 11 September; the England & Wales, National Probate Calendar records it as the 12th was a British Chemist, notable for identifying the chemical in Mustard gas ( ...
, then
vice-chancellor
A chancellor is a leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system.
In most Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth and former Commonwealth n ...
, had left the University in February to complete
National Service
National service is the system of voluntary government service, usually military service. Conscription is mandatory national service. The term ''national service'' comes from the United Kingdom's National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939.
The ...
. Mouat Jones returned to the University in October and Priestley was succeeded as provicechancellor by John David Ivor Hughes, professor of law at the university.
Personal life
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Priestley married Marion Ethel Young before leaving Bristol to take up his appointment as professor of botany at the University of Leeds. Marion was the younger daughter of Anthony and Sarah Young of Eastfield Road,
Cotham, Bristol. The wedding took place on 12August 1911 at the
Congregational church
Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches or Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Calvinist tradition practising congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its ...
in Bishopston, Bristol. It was a quiet ceremony, limited to close family, as his paternal grandmother, Annie, had died only a few weeks before on 26July 1911. The honeymoon was spent in
West Wales
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. Marion Ethel was a keen amateur botanist, and along with Priestley, was a member of the
British Mycological Society
The British Mycological Society is a learned society established in 1896 to promote the study of fungi.
Formation
The British Mycological Society (BMS) was formed by the combined efforts of two local societies: the Woolhope Naturalists' Field ...
. She organised many social activities at the University of Leeds, including a staff dancing class and "botanical parties" to which all botany staff and students were invited. She died at
Addenbrooke's Hospital
Addenbrooke's Hospital is an internationally renowned large teaching hospital and research centre in Cambridge, England, with strong affiliations to the University of Cambridge. Addenbrooke's Hospital is based on the Cambridge Biomedical Camp ...
,
Cambridge
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, on 25July 1965, aged 79, and the funeral service was held on 2August 1965 at
St Mary's church,
Great Shelford
Great Shelford is a village located approximately to the south of Cambridge, in the county of Cambridgeshire, in eastern England. In 1850 Great Shelford parish contained bisected by the river Cam. The population in 1841 was 803 people. By 2001 ...
, followed by cremation at Cambridge Crematorium.
Their elder daughter, Phyllis Mary, was born at Leeds on 25January 1920. She was educated at
Lawnswood High School, Leeds, and
Cheltenham Ladies' College
Cheltenham Ladies' College is an independent boarding and day school for girls aged 11 to 18 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Consistently ranked as one of the top all-girls' schools nationally, the school was established in 1853 to p ...
. In 1939, she was an
exhibitioner
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United Kingdom and Ireland
At the universities of Dublin, Oxford, Cambridge and Sheffield, at some public schools, and various other UK educational establishments, an exhibition is a sma ...
at
Girton College
Girton College is one of the Colleges of the University of Cambridge, 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon as the first women's college in Cambridge. In 1 ...
, Cambridge, graduating with a
BA degree in 1942, and a
MA in 1947. She married John Carlisle Cullen, of Belfast, on 3January 1946 at
St Chad's Church,
Far Headingley
Far Headingley is an area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England approximately 3 miles (5 km) north of the city centre. The parish of Far Headingley was created in 1868.
The area is part of the Weetwood ward of Leeds City Council and Leeds ...
, Leeds. Cullen was a graduate of
Queen's University Belfast
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and a former researcher at the
National Institute of Agricultural Botany
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The NIAB group
The NIAB group consists of:
* NIAB
* NIAB EMR - a horticultural and agricultural research institute at East M ...
at Cambridge. She died after a long illness at Clifton, Bristol, on 22May 1999. A
Requiem Mass
A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead ( la, Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead ( la, Missa defunctorum), is a Mass of the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, ...
was held at
Clifton Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of SS. Peter and Paul is the Roman Catholic cathedral of the city of Bristol (not to be confused with the Church of England Bristol Cathedral). Located in the Clifton area of the city, it is the seat and mother church of the ...
on 2June 1999 followed by cremation at
South Bristol crematorium. Michael Cullen, Phyllis Mary's son and Priestley's grandson, is a former senior
research fellow
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at the
Met Office
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and
visiting professor
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in mathematics at the
University of Reading
The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...
.
Their younger daughter, Ann Elizabeth, was born at Leeds on 14May 1923. She was educated at the same schools as her sister, and in 1942, entered Girton College as an exhibitioner to study geography. From 1944 to 1945, she was president of the
Cambridge University Women's Boat Club
Cambridge University Women's Boat Club (CUWBC) was the rowing club for women at the University of Cambridge. CUWBC fielded both a lightweight eight that races against Oxford at the Henley Boat Races, and two openweight eights that race at the W ...
. In 1945, she graduated with a BA and won the
Thèrèse Montefiore Memorial Prize. From 1945, she was a TuckerPrice research fellow working on water erosion and was awarded a MA by the University of Cambridge in 1949. From 1946 to 1951, she was a lecturer in geography at the University of Leeds, and from 1956, was head of geography and
divinity
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at
Perse School for Girls
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The Foundation is made up of 3 nurseries (2 in Cambridge and 1 in Saffron Walden, Essex) for ages 1–5, 2 Junior Schoo ...
, Panton Street, Cambridge. By 1954, she was a member of the
Institute of British Geographers
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical scien ...
, and in 1966, she was secretary to the Cambridge branch of the Christian Education Movement. She later joined the Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely Naturalists' Trust and was
clerk
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of Great Shelford parish council. She died at
York
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on 27January 1986 and was cremated at York crematorium. Her ashes were interred at
Lawnswood cemetery in Leeds.
Death and legacy
At the end of December 1935, Priestley was seriously ill and underwent a major operation on 16January 1936. He died after a long illness at his home in
Weetwood
Weetwood is an area between Headingley and Meanwood in north-west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is bounded on the north by the A6120 (Outer Ring Road), on the west by the A660 (Otley Road), on the east by Meanwood Beck and to the sout ...
, Leeds, on 31October 1944, and the funeral was held at Lawnswood crematorium in the morning on 3November 1944. A large number of university staff attended including Mouat Jones,
Bonamy Dobrée
Bonamy Dobrée (2 February 1891 – 3 September 1974), British academic, was Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds from 1936 to 1955.
Dobrée declared himself a Channel Islander, and was rather proud that both his Bonam ...
, and
Arthur Stanley Turberville. There were also representatives from the
Joint Matriculation Board, the
Forestry Commission
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The Forestry Commission was previously also respon ...
, and James Digby Firth represented the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union and the Leeds Naturalists' Club. Priestley's ashes were later scattered on the gardens of rest at the crematorium. Lorna Scott managed the botany department for eighteen months until
Irene Manton was appointed on 15January 1946.
After Priestley's death, a memorial
trust fund
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was established to provide grants to botany students at the University of Leeds. In December 1946, his brother Raymond, then vicechancellor of the
University of Birmingham
, mottoeng = Through efforts to heights
, established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...
, gifted money to Tewkesbury Grammar School to provide for an annual science prize, named the "Joseph Hubert Priestley Prize" in memory of his brother. Priestley's collection of
fossil
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s now forms part of the
herbarium
A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study.
The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called ...
at the
Leeds Discovery Centre. A major part of the collection was formed from a bequest made to the University of Leeds by
Ida Mary Roper, Priestley's friend and colleague from University College, Bristol.
Edward Cocking
Edward Charles Daniel Cocking FRS (born 26 September 1931) is a British plant scientist, and Emeritus Professor at University of Nottingham.
He was on the Board of Trustees of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-de ...
, a British plant scientist, has described Priestley as "a highly unorthodox physiological botanist", and Priestley was often the first to admit that some of his early work had been published prematurely. Nevertheless, he was a gifted teacher who attracted many graduate research students to Leeds. Lorna Scott wrote in his obituary:
Selected publications
Books and reports
*
:: See also
Vladimir Nikolaevich Lyubimenko.
*
:: See
William Bateson
William Bateson (8 August 1861 – 8 February 1926) was an English biologist who was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscove ...
.
*
Effect of electricity
*
:: Priestley was also the honorary secretary society and editor of the journal.
*
*
*
:: Received 16 May 1914.
*
:: Communicated by
John Bretland Farmer
Sir John Bretland Farmer FRS FRSE (5 April 1865 – 26 January 1944) was a British botanist. He believed that chromomeres not chromosomes were the unit of heredity. Farmer and J. E. S. Moore introduced the term ''meiosis'' in 1905.
Life
...
, . Received 13 February 1913. Refereed by
Arthur Harden
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in February 1913.
Photosynthesis
*
:: Communicated by
Morris William Travers
Morris William Travers, FRS (24 January 1872 – 25 August 1961) was an English chemist who worked with Sir William Ramsay in the discovery of xenon, neon and krypton. His work on several of the rare gases earned him the name ''Rare gas ...
, . Received 16 December 1905. Refereed by
Horace Tabberer Brown
Horace Tabberer Brown FRS (20 July 1848 – 6 February 1925) was a British chemist.
Early life
He was born after the death of his biological father so his stepfather was the only father he knew. The stepfather was a banker and amateur naturalis ...
in January 1906.
*
:: Communicated by
Morris William Travers
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, . Received 30 April 1906. Refereed by
Horace Tabberer Brown
Horace Tabberer Brown FRS (20 July 1848 – 6 February 1925) was a British chemist.
Early life
He was born after the death of his biological father so his stepfather was the only father he knew. The stepfather was a banker and amateur naturalis ...
in May 1906.
*
:: Communicated by
Morris William Travers
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, . Received 13 April 1911.
Disease
*
Salt tolerance
*
::
Halophyte
A halophyte is a salt-tolerant plant that grows in soil or waters of high salinity, coming into contact with saline water through its roots or by salt spray, such as in saline semi-deserts, mangrove swamps, marshes and sloughs and seashores. Th ...
s that grow on the banks of the
Severn Estuary
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.
Anatomy of plants
*
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:: Authority:
José Mariano de Conceição Vellozo
José Mariano de Conceição Vellozo (also called José Mariano da Conceição Velloso) (1742–1811) was a Colonial Brazilian botanist who catalogued specimens, for example: ''Cedrela fissilis'' Vell. in ''Florae Fluminensis'' (1825–27; 1831). H ...
.
Composition of the cell wall
*
:: Communicated by
Frederick Frost Blackman, . Received 25 April 1923. Refereed by
William Lawrence Balls in May 1923.
*
*
*
:: Communicated by
Frederick Frost Blackman, . Received 13 April 1926. Refereed by Vernon Herbert Blackman in April 1926.
Light and growth
*
*
*
*
*
Forestry
*
*
Vegetative propagation
*
:: Masters Lectures for 1925. Read 7 April 1925 and 23 June 1925.
*
Cambial tissue activity
*
:: Communicated in September 1928 at the British Association meeting in Glasgow to a joint meeting of Sections D, I and K, and organised by the
Society for Experimental Biology
The Society for Experimental Biology is a learned society for animal, cell and plant biologists. It was founded in 1923 at Birkbeck College to "promote the art and science of experimental biology in all its branches". It aims to demonstrate the i ...
.
*
:: The paper was communicated to the
Department of Forestry (K section), at the
British Science Association
The British Science Association (BSA) is a charity and learned society founded in 1831 to aid in the promotion and development of science. Until 2009 it was known as the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA). The current Chie ...
meeting at Glasgow in September 1928.
*
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See also
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{{Cite report, last1=Leach , first1=Christine , date=28 May 2020 , title=Lawnswood Burial Register 194-1992 , publisher=Yorkshire Indexers and Burials , volume=109 , page=414 , location=Leeds , language=en , id=8266 , url=https://search.yorkshireburials.uk/burials_municipal_view.php?editid1=396857 , access-date=6 December 2021 , url-access=registration
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{{Cite book, last1=Leadbeater , first1=Barry Stanley Cecil , others=
Linnean Society of London
The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and taxonomy. It possesses several important biological specimen, manuscript and literature colle ...
, year=2004 , title=Irene Manton: A Biography (1904-1988) , publisher=
Blackwell Publishing
Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley & Sons Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publish ...
, pages=38{{Ndash41 , location=London , language=en , oclc=1149998328 , url=https://archive.org/details/irenemantonbiogr00lead/page/38 , access-date=6 December 2021 , url-access=registration , quote=Special Issue No. 5.
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{{Cite book, editor1-last=Mee , editor1-first=Arthur , year=1913 , title=Harmsworth Popular Science , section=Group 5. The Forerunners of Knowledge and Progress. Pioneers. Joseph Hubert Priestley. A Pioneer in Electric Gardening , publisher=
The Educational Book Co. , volume=7 , pages=4820{{Ndash4821 , location=London , language=en , oclc=1167109574 , section-url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.24384/page/n462 , access-date=6 December 2021
{{Refn, name="Priestley Ridley 2002",
{{Cite book, editor1-last=Ridley , editor1-first=Ronald Thomas , last1=Priestley , first1=Raymond Edward , author1-link=Raymond Priestley , year=2002 , title=The Diary of a Vice-Chancellor: University of Melbourne 1935-1938 , publisher=
Melbourne University Press
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is the book publishing arm of the University of Melbourne.
History
MUP was founded in 1922 as Melbourne University Press to sell text books and stationery to students, and soon began publishing books itself. ...
, pages=1{{Ndash555 , location=Carlton South , language=en , oclc=123296153 , isbn=978-0-522-84985-1
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{{Cite book, last1=Raeside , first1=Adrian , author1-link=Adrian Raeside , year=2009 , chapter=18. Home , title=Return to Antarctica: The amazing adventure of Sir Charles Wright on Robert Scott's journey to the South Pole , publisher=
J. Wiley & Sons Canada , page=277 , location=Mississauga , language=en , oclc=1131579499 , isbn=978-0-470-15380-2
{{Refn, name="Royal Commission 1911",
{{Cite book, author=Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 , author1-link=Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 , year=1911 , title=Eighth report of the Commissioners for the exhibition of 1851 to the Right Hon. Winston Churchill, M. P. , section=Appendix D. List of Science Research Scholars Appointed Between the Years 1891 and 1910 , publisher=
His Majesty's Stationery Office
The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is the body responsible for the operation of His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) and of other public information services of the United Kingdom. The OPSI is part of the National Archives of the Un ...
, page=84 , location=London , language=en , oclc=1144749672 , doi=10.5479/sil.776034.39088011383577 , doi-access=free , section-url=https://archive.org/details/eighthreportcom00grea/page/84 , access-date=6 December 2021
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{{Cite book, editor1-last=MacGregor , editor1-first=Alasdair Alpin , editor1-link=Alasdair Alpin MacGregor , last1=Taylor , first1=Thomas Griffith , author1-link=Thomas Griffith Taylor , year=1958 , chapter=15. London: Cambridge: Tewkesbury: South Africa (1913-1914) , title=Journeyman Taylor , publisher=
Robert Hale , pages=128{{Ndash129 , location=London , language=en , oclc=1210425
{{Refn, name="University of London 1912",
{{Cite book, author= , title=The Historical Record (1836-1912) , year=1912 , publisher=
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint (trade name), imprint of Hachette (publisher), Hachette.
History
Early history
The firm has its origins in the 1840s, with Matthew Hodder's employment, aged 14, with Messrs ...
for the
University of London Press
The University of London Press (also known as UoL Press) is a publishing house that is part of the University of London. Based in the School of Advanced Study at Senate House, it "seeks to facilitate collaborative, inclusive, open access interch ...
, edition=1st , page=367 , location=London , language=en , oclc=13651361 , url=https://archive.org/details/historicalrecord00univrich/page/366 , access-date=6 December 2021
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{{Cite book, author= , year=1944 , title=Who's Who , publisher=Macmillan Inc., Macmillan Publishers , edition=96th , page=2239 , location=New York , language=en , oclc=49208358 , url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.151804/page/n2333 , access-date=6 December 2021
{{Refn, name="Beckett 2004",
{{Cite journal, last1=Beckett , first1=Mary , year=2004 , title=Mary Ida Roper & Her Herbarium , journal=Natural Sciences Collections Association#Publications, NatSCA News , publisher=Natural Sciences Collections Association , issue=3 , pages=52{{Ndash55 , location=Woking , language=en , oclc=1050495216 , issn=1741-3974 , id=400 , url=http://www.natsca.org/sites/default/files/publications/NatSCA%20News%20Issue%203-19.pdf , access-date=6 December 2021
{{Refn, name="British Bryological Society 1926",
{{Cite journal, editor1-last=Jones , editor1-first=Daniel Angell , year=1926 , title=List of Members , journal=Report , publisher=
British Bryological Society
The British Bryological Society is an academic society dedicated to bryology, which encourages the study of bryophytes ( mosses, liverworts and hornworts). It publishes the peer-reviewed ''Journal of Bryology''.
History
The Society developed f ...
, volume=1 , series=Part 4 , page=190 , location=London , language=en , oclc=11340835 , url=https://www.britishbryologicalsociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/BBS-Report-Vol.1-Part-4-1926.pdf#page=6 , access-date=6 December 2021 , url-status=live , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206081641/https://www.britishbryologicalsociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/BBS-Report-Vol.1-Part-4-1926.pdf , archive-date=6 December 2021
{{Refn, name="British Mycological Society 1922",
{{Cite journal, editor1-last=Rea , editor1-first=Carleton , editor1-link=Carleton Rea , editor2-last=Ramsbottom , editor2-first=John , editor2-link=John Ramsbottom (mycologist) , others=
British Mycological Society
The British Mycological Society is a learned society established in 1896 to promote the study of fungi.
Formation
The British Mycological Society (BMS) was formed by the combined efforts of two local societies: the Woolhope Naturalists' Field ...
, date=21 July 1922 , title=List of Members, 1921 , journal=Fungal Biology, Transactions of the British Mycological Society , publisher=
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press
A university press is an academic publishing hou ...
, volume=7 , issue=4 , series=Part 2 , page=310 , location=Cambridge , language=en , oclc=645084739 , issn=0007-1536 , doi=10.1016/S0007-1536(22)80029-2 , url=https://archive.org/details/transactionsofbr07brit/page/310 , access-date=6 December 2021
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{{Cite journal, author= , year=1986 , title=Priestley, Ann Elizabeth , journal=Cambridge University Reporter , publisher=
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press
A university press is an academic publishing hou ...
, volume=117 , issue=Special No. 6 , page=56 , language=en , oclc=637598274
{{Refn, name="Carles 1907",
{{Cite journal, editor1-last=Richardson , editor1-first=Linsdall , editor1-link=Linsdall Richardson , last1=Carles , first1=William Richard , date=9 April 1907 , title=The Annual Address of the President , journal=Proceedings , publisher=Cotteswold Naturalists Field Club , volume=16 , issue=Part 1 , pages=1{{Ndash8 , location=Gloucester , language=en , oclc=847503337 , url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45593#page/366 , access-date=6 December 2021
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{{Cite journal, last1=Cushing , first1=David , author1-link=David Cushing , date=December 2005 , title=Reginald Dawson Preston. 21 July 1908 - 3 May 2000: Elected F.R.S. 1954 , journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society , publisher=Royal Society , volume=51 , pages=347{{Ndash353 , location=Lowestoft , language=en , doi=10.1098/rsbm.2005.0022 , jstor=30036901 , issn=0080-4606 , doi-access=free
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{{Cite journal, editor1-last=Cronquist , editor1-first=Arthur , editor1-link=Arthur Cronquist , last1=Diprose , first1=Michael Frederick , last2=Benson , first2=Frank Atkinson , last3=Willis , first3=Arthur John , date=27 June 1984 , title=The Effect of Externally Applied Electrostatic Fields, Microwave Radiation and Electric Currents on Plants and other Organisms, with Special Reference to Weed Control , journal=The Botanical Review , publisher=New York Botanical Garden , volume=50 , series=April to June 1984 , issue=2 , pages=171{{Ndash223 , location=New York , language=en , oclc=4654162649 , issn=0006-8101 , jstor=4354034 , osti=5926028 , s2cid=42266905 , doi=10.1007/BF02861092
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{{Cite journal, last1=Edmonds , first1=Jennifer Mary , date=March 1999 , title=The University of Leeds Natural History Collections. Part 1: The University of Leeds Herbarium (LDS) , journal=The Biology Curator , publisher=Natural Sciences Collections Association , issue=14 , pages=3{{Ndash10 , location=Woking , language=en , oclc=31922103 , issn=1355-8331 , url=http://www.natsca.org/sites/default/files/publications/The%20Biology%20Curator%20Issue%2014-2.pdf , access-date=6 December 2021
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{{Cite magazine, editor1-last=Webbe , editor1-first=Joan , last1=Brown , first1=D. G. , date=February 1933 , title=News. University Societies. Men Day Students' Association , magazine=The Gryphon , publisher=Brotherton Library,
University of Leeds
, mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased
, established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds
, ...
, volume=1 , number=4 , series=New series , page=207 , location=Leeds , language=en , oclc=25586928 , url=http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/22012/1/LUA-PUB-002-GRY-231_000.pdf#page=71 , access-date=6 December 2021 , quote=Page 71 in the PDF.
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{{Cite journal, editor1-last=Hepburn , editor1-first=Ian , year=1973 , title=List of New Members From 1 December 1971 to 30 November 1972 , journal=Nature in Cambridgeshire , publisher=Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely Naturalists' Trust (CAMBIENT) , volume=16 , page=49 , location=Cambridge , language=en , oclc=1064389397 , issn=0466-6046 , url=http://www.natureincambridgeshire.org.uk/volumes/nature-in-cambs-vol-18-1975.pdf#page=50 , access-date=6 December 2021 , url-status=live , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322030746/http://natureincambridgeshire.org.uk/volumes/nature-in-cambs-vol-16-1973.pdf , archive-date=22 March 2019
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{{Cite journal, editor1-last=Ball , editor1-first=Charles Frederick , date=May 1910 , title=Electricity in Relation to Plant Growth , journal=Irish Gardening , publisher=Irish Gardening Limited , volume=5 , number=51 , series=January to December 1910 , page=77 , location=Dublin , language=en , oclc=731007985 , url=https://archive.org/details/irishgardening05dubl/page/77 , access-date=6 December 2021
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{{Cite journal, editor1-last=Cavers , editor1-first=Frank , date=March 1913 , title=Zonation of Pelophilous Formation, Severn Estuary , journal=Journal of Ecology , publisher=
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press
A university press is an academic publishing hou ...
, volume=1 , issue=1 , pages=53{{Ndash55 , location=Cambridge , language=en , issn=0022-0477 , jstor=2255463 , doi=10.2307/2255463
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{{Cite journal, author= , date=16 January 1908 , title=Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.R.S., President, in the Chair , journal=Linnean Society of London#Publications, Proceedings of the Linnean Society , publisher=
Linnean Society of London
The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and taxonomy. It possesses several important biological specimen, manuscript and literature colle ...
, volume=120 , series=November 1907 to June 1908 , page=7 , location=London , language=en , oclc=1755949 , url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35146#page/200 , access-date=6 December 2021
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{{Cite journal, editor1-last=Sheppard , editor1-first=Thomas , editor1-link=Thomas Sheppard (curator) , editor2-last=Woodhead , editor2-first=Thomas William , editor2-link=Thomas William Woodhead , date=January 1925 , title=The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union's Sixty‑Third Annual Report for 1924 , journal=The Naturalist , publisher=A. Brown and Sons , number=590 , page=22 , location=London , language=en , oclc=456084301 , url=https://archive.org/details/naturalist1925west/page/22 , access-date=6 December 2021
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{{Cite journal, editor1-last=Grist , editor1-first=William Robinson , editor2-last=Sledge , editor2-first=William Arthur , date=March 1946 , title=Priestley Memorial Fund , journal=The Naturalist , publisher=A. Brown and Sons , number=816 , page=16 , location=London , language=en , oclc=456084301 , url=https://archive.org/details/naturalist19461948west/page/n51 , access-date=6 December 2021
{{Refn, name="Nature 1908",
{{Cite journal, author= , date=23 April 1908 , title=University and Educational Intelligence , journal=Nature (journal), Nature , publisher=Nature Portfolio , volume=77 , number=2008 , page=598 , location=London , language=en , doi=10.1038/077597a0 , doi-access=free , issn=1476-4687 , bibcode=1908Natur..77..597. , url=https://archive.org/details/nature7719071908lock/page/598 , access-date=6 December 2021
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{{Cite journal, author= , date=22 December 1928 , title=News. The South Africa Meeting of the British Association, 1929 , journal=Nature (journal), Nature , publisher=Nature Portfolio , volume=122 , number=3086 , pages=963{{Ndash964 , location=London , language=en , doi=10.1038/122963a0 , doi-access=free , issn=1476-4687 , bibcode=1928Natur.122..963. , url=https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.26761/page/963 , access-date=6 December 2021
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{{Cite journal, last1=Weiss , first1=Frederick Ernest , author1-link=Frederick Ernest Weiss , date=10 November 1934 , title=Obituary. Prof. O. V. Darbishire , journal=Nature (journal), Nature , publisher=Nature Portfolio , volume=134 , number=3393 , page=726 , location=London , language=en , doi=10.1038/134726a0 , doi-access=free , issn=1476-4687 , bibcode=1934Natur.134..726F , url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.534760/page/n220 , access-date=6 December 2021
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{{Cite journal, last1=Pearsall , first1=William Harold , author1-link=William Pearsall , last2=Scott , first2=Lorna Iris , date=2 December 1944 , title=Obituary. Professor J. H. Priestley , journal=Nature (journal), Nature , publisher=Nature Portfolio , volume=154 , issue=3918 , pages=694{{Ndash695 , location=London , language=en , doi=10.1038/154694a0 , doi-access=free , issn=1476-4687 , bibcode=1944Natur.154..694P , s2cid=3998725 , url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.26770/page/n736 , access-date=6 December 2021
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{{Cite journal, editor1-last=Willis , editor1-first=Arthur John , last1=Phillips , first1=Frank Coles , date=10 April 1962 , title=The First Hundred Years. A Centenary History of the Bristol Naturalists' Society, 1862-1962 , journal=Proceedings , publisher=
Bristol Naturalists' Society , volume=30 , issue=Part 3a , pages=181{{Ndash214 , location=Bristol , language=en , oclc=1221555680 , url=https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofbri00bris/page/n3 , access-date=6 December 2021 , quote=Special issue prepared for the centenary year of the society.
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{{Cite journal, editor1-last=Plowman , editor1-first=Thomas Forder , others=
Bath and West and Southern Counties Society , year=1910 , title=Appendix. Objects of the Society and Privileges of Membership. Chemical, Botanical and Other Facilities , journal=Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society , publisher=Edward Stanford , volume=4 , series=5th , page=xc , location=London , language=en , oclc=863374318 , url=https://archive.org/details/journalofbathwes4190bath/page/90 , access-date=6 December 2021
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{{Cite journal, last1=Porter , first1=Helen Kemp , author1-link=Helen Porter , date=1 November 1968 , title=Vernon Herbert Blackman, 1872-1967 , journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society , publisher=Royal Society , volume=14 , pages=37{{Ndash60 , location=London , language=en , doi=10.1098/rsbm.1968.0003 , doi-access=free
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{{Cite journal, editor1-last=Clapham , editor1-first=Arthur Roy , editor1-link=Arthur Roy Clapham , editor2-last=Godwin , editor2-first=Harry , editor2-link=Harry Godwin , editor3-last=James , editor3-first=William Owen , last1=Scott , first1=Lorna Iris , date=June 1946 , title=Professor Joseph Hubert Priestley, D.S.O., B.Sc., F.L.S. 1883-1944 , journal=New Phytologist , publisher=
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press
A university press is an academic publishing hou ...
, volume=45 , number=1 , pages=3{{Ndash4 , location=London , language=en , doi=10.1111/j.1469-8137.1946.tb05040.x , doi-access=free , issn=0028-646X , jstor=2428931 , url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.271822/page/n11 , access-date=6 December 2021
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{{Cite journal, editor1-last=Grist , editor1-first=William Robinson , editor2-last=Sledge , editor2-first=William Arthur , last1=Sledge , first1=William Arthur , date=January 1945 , title=In Memoriam. Professor J. H. Priestley, D.S.O.,B.Sc., F.L.S. (1883-1944) , journal=The Naturalist , publisher=A. Brown and Sons , number=812 , pages=17{{Ndash18 , location=London , language=en , oclc=456084301 , url=https://archive.org/details/naturalist19431945west/page/17 , access-date=6 December 2021
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{{Cite journal, editor1-last=Steel , editor1-first=Robert Walter , editor1-link=Robert Walter Steel , year=1954 , title=Members , others=
Institute of British Geographers
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical scien ...
, journal=Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Transactions and Papers , publisher=George Philip (cartographer)#George Philip & Son Ltd; twentieth century onward, George Philip & Son , number=20 , page=xv , location=London , language=en , issn=1478-4017 , jstor=621127
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{{Cite journal, author=University College , author1-link=University College, Bristol , year=1985 , title=John Stewart Scholarships , journal=Calendar , publisher=J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd , pages=18{{Ndash19 , location=Bristol , language=en , oclc=223314369 , url=https://archive.org/details/calendar188586brisuoft/page/n23 , access-date=6 December 2021
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{{Cite journal, author= , year=1922 , title=The Officers of the University , journal=Annual Report , publisher=
University of Leeds
, mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased
, established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds
, ...
, volume=18 , series=1921 to 1922 , page=5 , location=Leeds , language=en , oclc=499388156 , url=http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/12229/5257/LUA-PUB-009-3-3_000.pdf#page=337 , access-date=6 December 2021 , url-status=live , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909095742/http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/12229/5257/LUA-PUB-009-3-3_000.pdf , archive-date=9 September 2017 , quote=Page 337 in the PDF.
{{Refn, name="University of Leeds 1933",
{{Cite journal, author= , year=1933 , title=University Staff. Administrative and General , journal=Calendar , publisher=Brotherton Library,
University of Leeds
, mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased
, established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds
, ...
, volume=26 , series=1932-1933 , page=110 , location=Leeds , language=en , oclc=977649860 , url=http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/11555/1/LUA-PUB-003-3-57_000.pdf#page=127 , access-date=6 December 2021 , url-status=live , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211112051719/http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/11555/1/LUA-PUB-003-3-57_000.pdf , archive-date=11 November 2021 , quote=Page 127 in the PDF.
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{{Cite journal, author=Emeritus , year=1991 , title=Fifty Years Past: The University in 1941 , journal=The University of Leeds Review , publisher=
University of Leeds
, mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased
, established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds
, ...
, volume=34 , pages=107{{Ndash118 , location=Leeds , language=en , oclc=906145227 , issn=0041-9737
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{{Cite journal, author= , date=August 1905 , title=University College, Bristol , journal=The University Review , publisher=Bowes & Bowes, Sherratt & Hughes , volume=1 , number=4 , series=May to September 1905 , page=459 , location=London , language=en , oclc=27723382 , issn=2753-0329 , url=https://archive.org/details/universityrevie02unkngoog/page/n517 , access-date=6 December 2021
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{{Cite web, last1=Balfour , first1=Henry , author1-link=Henry Balfour , year=1929 , title=Balfour Papers. South and East Africa. Tour as President of the Anthropology Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1929 , website=prm.ox.ac.uk , publisher=Pitt Rivers Museum , location=Oxford , language=en , url=https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/south-and-east-africa-1929-tour-president-anthropology-section-baas-british-association-advancement , access-date=6 December 2021 , url-status=live , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720130309/https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/south-and-east-africa-1929-tour-president-anthropology-section-baas-british-association-advancement , archive-date=20 July 2021
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{{Cite news , author= , date=16 March 1949 , title=Births , work=The Yorkshire Post, The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer , page=2 , location=Leeds , language=en , oclc=18793101 , issn=0963-1496 , via=British Newspaper Archive , url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19490316/037/0002 , access-date=6 December 2021 , url-access=subscription
Further reading
* {{Cite journal, last1=Foster , first1=Adriance Sherwood , author1-link=Adriance S. Foster , date=1 April 1945 , title=J. H. Priestley , journal=Plant Physiology (journal), Plant Physiology , publisher=American Society of Plant Biologists , volume=20 , issue=2 , pages=318{{Ndash319 , location=Lancaster , language=en , issn=0032-0889 , jstor=4257873 , pmc=437227 , pmid=16653992 , doi=10.1104/pp.20.2.315 , doi-access=free , url=https://archive.org/details/sim_plant-physiology_1945-04_20_2/page/318 , access-date=6 December 2021 , ref=none
* {{Cite report, last1=Dixon , first1=John , last2=Waldron , first2=Malcolm , last3=Eedle , first3=Sam , date=7 November 2015 , title=A Noble Band of Heroes: A commemoration of those from Tewkesbury who lost their lives during the Great War, 1914-1919 , publisher=Tewkesbury Historical Society , series=THS Publication 9 , pages=1{{Ndash135 , location=Tewkesbury , language=en , oclc=1019478797 , issn=1742-6030 , url=https://tewkesburyhistory.org/docs/BiogsWW1/A-Noble-Band-of-Heroes.pdf , access-date=3 December 2021 , url-status=live , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203062948/https://tewkesburyhistory.org/docs/BiogsWW1/A-Noble-Band-of-Heroes.pdf , archive-date=3 December 2021 , ref=none , quote=Includes commentary on the war service of Priestley's brothers Donald and Stanley.
External links
Past head teachers of the Abbey House school at Tewkesbury via the Old Theocsbrian Society, the alumni association for the school. The article includes a photograph of Priestley's father, Joseph Edward.
The Irene Manton and Ida Roperplant collection at the
Leeds Discovery Centre.
Lorna Scott and her Mortar Boardby Margaret Stewart, for Egham Museum, on botanist Lorna Scott, Priestley's collaborator at Leeds during the 1930s.
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