University of Birmingham Staff Papers: Papers of Sir Raymond Edward Priestley 1920-1960

Priestley, Raymond E. (Raymond Edward), 1886-1974

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University of Birmingham.

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Individual letters are regularly acquired, usually by purchase, to complement holdings of personal papers and institutional archives within the Special Collections Department.The letters are added to either a general sequence of autograph letters (described here) or one of a small number of separate sequences of autograph letters devoted to a particular individual. Reference: University of Birmingham, Guide to Special Collections Archives and Manuscripts (http://www.is.b...

Sir Raymond Edward Priestley

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Epithet: Vice-Chancellor Birmingham University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000386.0x000328 Raymond Edward Priestley was born in 1886. He was educated at Tewkesbury Grammar School and read botany and geology at Bristol University College. He joined the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909 (leader Ernest Henry Shackleton) as a geologist. He took part in the sledging programme, working under Pr...