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Description: | 16th November 1999.
View of the statue of Joseph Priestly which was paid for and donated by Col.Harding in 1903 when City Square was officially opened.
Joseph Priestley was born in 1733 at Birstall.
He became minister of Mill Hill Chapel from 1767 to 1773.
He was founder of the private Leeds Library and was a respected Scientist.
He discovered Oxygen in 1774. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | City Square Statue | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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