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.