Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804
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Description: A lecture treating Priestley's life and work.
The English Unitarian minister and chemist, was born, a cloth-dresser's son, at Fieldhead in Birstall Parish, Leeds. At the grammar school he entered in 1745, Priestley learned Latin, Greek and improved on a system of shorthand. Both independently and with tutors, he became proficient in physics, philosophy, algebra, mathematics and a variety of ancient Near Eastern and modern languages. After four years at the Dissenting academy at Daventry, in 1755 he became minister at a small Presbyterian parish at Needham Market, Suffolk, and there wrote
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| Page title: | Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804 |
| Keywords: | priestley, joseph priestley, birmingham, academy, biography, history, burke, english, laboratory, northumberland, presbyterian, science, scripture, birmingham priestley, chemist, chemistry, dissenting, republicanism, warrington, academy daventry, dissenting academy, english radical |
| Description: | Although Joseph Priestley supported civil and religious liberty, he was never a leader in the English radical movement for parliamentary reform, yet he was perhaps its most prominent victim in the 1790s. |
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