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Priestley, Sir Raymond Edward (1886–1974), geologist and academic administrator

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Priestley, Sir Raymond Edward (1886–1974), geologist and academic administrator, was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, on 20 July 1886, the second son and second of eight children of Joseph Edward Priestley, headmaster of Tewkesbury grammar school, and his wife, Henrietta Rice. Priestley was educated in his father's school and taught there for a year before reading geology at ...

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