Note 10 — Chapter IV

This portrait was formerly in the possession of Mrs Crouch, Priestley’s youngest sister, and, according to Mrs Bilbrough of Gildersome (née Ellen Priestley), was brought by Mrs Crouch, “along with the old family clock from her father’s, Fieldhead, when she came to live here in 1787.” The picture was once placed in the window of a carver and gilder’s shop at Leeds, when Priestley stopped to look at it in passing by. A woman happened to be doing the same, and, on seeing him, exclaimed, “Why, here’s the fellow himself!” A photographic copy of it was presented to the subscribers to the Stephen Statue in the Oxford Museum.