Briggs Priestley
Briggs Priestley (16 March 1831 – 21 October 1907) was an English cloth manufacturer and Liberal Party politician from Bradford in West Yorkshire.Priestley was born at Thornton in the West Riding of Yorkshire.[2] In 1867 Priestley was elected to the Bradford Town Council and was responsible for the provision of a park in Horton and for the establishment of an art gallery and museum in Bradford.He established a free school for orphan children in New Leeds district in 1868 and two years later another in the Bolton Road.[6] Priestley lived at Ferncliffe, Appleby Bridge where he died at the age of 76.
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