Joseph Priestley

(1733-1804)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 NRA: Priestley Joseph (1733-1804) Scientist DNB: Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804), theologian and natural philosopher LBT ID: JoPries1804 VIAF ID: 120696744 LOC ID: n79061180	B/BAP: 1733-03-13 DIED: 1804-02-06
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Dissenting theologian, schoolmaster, and scientist; he was author of The History and Present State of Electricity, with Original Experiments (1767).
REFERENCES TO Joseph Priestley: William Hazlitt to William Hazlit sen.; [July] 1790 in Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Found 1: ¶ 2 William Hazlitt to the editor of the Shrewsbury Chronicle [Summer] 1791 in Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 4 Samuel Newton to William Godwin, 4 December 1793 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [30 May 1796] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 10 Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2 January 1797 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [10 January 1797] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 Robert Southey to John May, 26 June 1797 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 6 February 1822 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to John Murray, 8 February 1822 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 February 1822 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 “Lord Byron’s Cain” in The Examiner (10 March 1822) 152 Found 1: ¶ 2 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) On religion and religious epics Found 1: ¶ 12 Byron's Cain Found 1: ¶ n2 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XII. 1779-1786 Found 2: ¶ 27 ¶ n3 Ch. XVIII. 1789 Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch. XIX. 1790-1792 Found 10: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 ¶ 11 ¶ 13 ¶ 16 ¶ 17 ¶ 21 Ch. XXI. 1791-1796 Found 3: ¶ 2 ¶ 19 ¶ 20 Ch. XXVIII. 1800-1807 Found 1: ¶ 12 Ch III. 1809 Found 1: ¶ n2 Ch V. 1810-1813 Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch XIV. 1819 Found 1: ¶ 18 Ch XXI. Found 1: ¶ 14 Appendix Verse 2: p. 473c p. 473c Kennedy, James, 1793?-1827, Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and others, held in Cephalonia, a short time previous to His Lordship’s Death (London: John Murray, 1830) Kennedy on Scripture Found 1: ¶ 19 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1822 Life of Byron: 1824 Found 1: ¶ 157 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter IV. 1788-1796 Found 2: ¶ 32 ¶ 36 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. II. 1794 Found 1: ¶ 28 Ch. V. 1797 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 15 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Chap. I 1778-1811 Found 1: ¶ 18 Ch. II: 1791-95 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 10 Ch. XII 1808 Found 1: ¶ 28 Ch. XVII 1820 Found 2: ¶ 19 ¶ 20 Ch. XXII Found 1: ¶ 8 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. I. 1756-1785 Found 1: ¶ 52 Ch. II. 1785-1788 Found 1: ¶ 5 Ch. III. 1788-1792 Found 2: ¶ 6 ¶ 13 Ch. IV. 1793 Ch. V. 1783-1794 Found 1: ¶ 50 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 6 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VIII. 1818-19. Found 1: ¶ 35 Chapter XI. 1825-1827. Found 1: ¶ 8 Chapter IV. 1838-41. Found 1: ¶ 13 Chapter VI. 1845-46. Found 1: ¶ 28 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XVI. Found 1: ¶ 55 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1796 Found 1: ¶ 33 Letters: 1797 Found 3: ¶ 12 ¶ 12 ¶ 14 Letters: 1800 Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 7 Letters: 1801 Found 1: ¶ 1 Letters: 1806 Found 1: ¶ 1