Joseph Child Priestley

Sir Joseph Child Priestley, KC, JP, DL (11 January 1862 – 9 June 1941) was an English barrister and magistrate, active in public life in Hertfordshire. Early life Priestley was born at No. 31, Somerset Street, Portman Square, Marylebone on 11 January 1862, the son of Sir William Overend Priestley and his wife, Lady Eliza (the daughter of Robert Chambers, the well known publisher, of Edinburgh). He entered Marlborough College in 1876, where he was a member of Preshute House. He left the school at the end of the Christmas term, 1878, and was admitted as a pensioner at Pembroke College, Cambridge on 11 October 1880. He graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1884. Around 1884, he entered into a partnership with Horatio Hooper and William Campbell as ship owners and ship managers, at No. 15, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff, under the style or firm of Hooper, Campbell, and Co. He was commissioned and appointed as a Lieutenant in the 1st Glamorganshire Artillery Volunteer Corps, with effect from 19 July 1884. Having decided to train as a barrister, he dissolved his partnership with Hooper and Campbell on 15 December 1885, and was admitted as a student of law at the Inner Temple on 9 January 1886. He was struck off the strength of the Glamorganshire Artillery Volunteer Corps, and appointed to the 3rd Middlesex Artillery Volunteer Corps, with effect from 11 December 1886.