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Priestley

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Priestley
1. J(ohn) B(oynton). 1894--1984, English author. His works include the novels The Good Companions (1929) and Angel Pavement (1930) and the play An Inspector Calls (1946)
2. Joseph. 1733--1804, English chemist, political theorist, and clergyman, in the US from 1794. He discovered oxygen (1774) independently of Scheele and isolated and described many other gases


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WHEN the novelist and playwright J B Priestley described the North East in his 1934 best-selling book English Journey, it must have sounded to his southern readers as not so much like another country as a different planet.
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