Person Priestley; Joseph (1733 - 1804) Priestley Joseph 1733 - 1804 British Male Fieldhead Farmhouse, parish of Birstall, West Riding of Yorkshire, England 13 March 1733 Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA 06 February 1804 Burial: Quakers' burial-ground, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA

Presbyterian Minister Chemistry Electricity Natural philosophy Theology Education: Batley Grammar School (1745), Daventry Academy (1751) Career: Minister, Needham Market, Suffolk; Minister, Nantwich, Cheshire; taught in Warrington; librarian-companion to Lord Shelburne (1774); Minister of the New Meeting, Birmingham (1780-1790) Married the sister of one of his pupils; three children: Sarah (1803), Joseph (1768-1833), William Medals and prizes: Copley Medal 1772 Fellow 12/06/1766 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB References: W H G Armytage, 'Science and Education: a Note' in NR 1956-57 vol 12 pp 226-229 W A Smeaton, 'Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau, FRS (1737-1816) and his Relations with British Scientists' in NR 1967 vol 22 pp 113-130 T E Allibone, 'The Club of the Royal College of Physicians, the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers and their Relationship to the Royal Society Club' in NR 1967 vol 22 pp 186-192 Robert E Schofield, 'The Lunar Society of Birmingham; A Bicentenary Appraisal' in NR 1966 vol 21 pp 144-161 R E W Maddison and Francis R.Maddison, 'Joseph Priestley and the Birmingham Riots' in NR 1956-57 vol 12 pp 98-113 John Thomas, 'Josiah Wedgwood's Portrait Medallions of Fellows of the Royal Society' in NR 1963 vol 18 pp 45-53, plate Douglas McKie, 'Priestley's Laboratory and Library and Other of his Effects' in NR 1956-57 vol 12 pp 114-136 D McKie, 'A Note on Priestley in America' in NR 1953 vol 10 pp 51-59 Anon, 'A Portrait of Joseph Priestley, FRS, by James Millar, 1789' in NR 1939 vol 2 pp 32-33, plate J S Rowlinson, review of R G W Anderson and C Lawrence (eds), Science, Medicine and Dissent: Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) in NR 1989 vol 43 pp 275-276 Stephen F Mason, 'Jean Hyacinthe de Magellan, FRS, and the Chemical Revolution of the Eighteenth Century' in NR 1991 vol 45 pp 155-164 J Edmund White, 'The Priestley Memorial Volume' in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 85-96 Alan Q Morton, 'Previous Public Perceptions of Science', review of Larry Stewart, The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660-1750 and Jan Golinski, Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820 in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 157-159 A V Simcock, '"Reason's Dim Telescope": A Poetic Tirade Against Joseph Priestley, FRS' in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 79-84 Linde Katritzky, 'Coleridge's Links with Leading Men of Science' in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 261-276 Paul Elliott, 'Abraham Bennet, FRS (1749-1799): A Provincial Electrician in Eighteenth-Century England' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 59-78 J B Morrell, 'Professors Robison and Playfair, and the Theophobia Gallica: Natural Philosophy, Religion and Politics in Edinburgh, 1789-1815' in NR 1971 vol 26 pp 43-63 Maurice Crosland, 'Explicit Qualifications as a Criterion for Membership of the Royal Society: A Historical Review' in NR 1982-83 vol 37 pp 167-187 R V Jones, 'Benjamin Franklin' in NR 1976-7 vol 31 pp 201-225 William P Griffith, 'Priestley in London' in NR 1983-84 vol 38 pp 1-16, plate L B Glyn, 'Israel Lyons: a short but starry career. The life of an eighteenth-century Jewish botanist and astronomer' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 275-305 R W Jones, 'Dalton's unfortunate choice' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 15-33 N G Coley, 'George Pearson MD, FRS (1751-1828): 'The greatest chemist in England'? in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 161-175 D King-Hele, 'Makers of the future. The Lunar Men: the friends who made the future, by J Uglow' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 348 - 350 J S Rowlinson, 'Displacing Phlogiston. Robert Siegfried, From elements to atoms: a history of chemical composition' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 242-243 ©The Royal Society International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-9725 13 Mar 1733 - 6 Feb 1804 NA8274 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/120696744 e25f6efb-38ee-472c-b022-1374caf8eae3