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“Dr. Priestly.” See “Chemistry,” page 118. (1733-1804.) An eminent English divine and philosopher. His partiality to the French Revolution excited the English against him, and in one of the riots his home, library and manuscripts were destroyed by the fire kindled by an angry mob. His later home was in Northumberland, Pa. He wrote between seventy and eighty volumes on history, literature, theology and science.