Joseph Priestley
1733–1804
Theologian and natural scientist. Educated for the dissenting ministry and spent most of his adult life as a teacher or preacher. Prolific writer on theology, history, education, metaphysics, and scientific subjects. Became the chief propagandist for Unitarian beliefs in England. Increasing signs of political persecution prompted his emigration to the United States in 1794.
Sources
DSB
ODNB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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