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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, Gavan updated 2025-12-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001784b.htm person Priestley Henry James AACR2 10 April 1883 26 February 1932 Place of Birth Crouch Hill, London, England Place of Death Queensland, Australia Mathematician Henry Priestley was Professor, first of mathematics and physics, and later of mathematics, University of Queensland 1910-1932. The psotion in physics was offered to Thomas Parnell. He played an active role in the academic life of the university, with service on the senate, as dean of the faculty of science, as president of the board of faculties (later professorial board) and as a member of many standing committees of senate and board. He was also a Founder and long-term president of the Queensland branch of the Mathematical Association of Great Britain. 1905 1905 Education - 5th wrangler at Jesus College, Cambridge, UK 1906 1907 Career position - Experimental physics Researcher, University of Cambridge 1907 1910 Career position - Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Manchester, UK 1911 1919 Career position - Professor of Mathematics and Physics, and Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Queensland 1919 Career position - Foundation Councillor (Mathematics), Australian National Research Council 1919 1932 Career position - Professor of Mathematics, University of Queensland 1921 1921 Career position - President, Section A (Astronomy, Mathematics and Physics), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1923 1923 Career position - President, Royal Society of Queensland Parnell, Thomas (1881 - 1948) Royal Society of Queensland (1884 - )

President 1923

 The University of Queensland (1910 - )

Professor of Mathematics and Physics 1911 - 1919; Dean, Faculty of Science 1911 - 1919; Professor of Mathematics 1919 - 1932

 Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (1888 - 1930)

President, Section A (Astronomy, Mathematics and Physics) 1921

 Australian National Research Council (ANRC) (1919 - 1955)

Foundation Member (Mathematics) 1919 -

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 Priestley, Henry James (1883-1932)

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 'Priestley, Henry James', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Priestley, Henry James Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Vivant Professores: Distinguished Members of the University of Queensland, 1910-1940 Gregory, Helen Vivant Professores: Distinguished Members of the University of Queensland, 1910-1940 St Lucia University of Queensland Library 1987 Resource Section: Priestley, Henry James Priestley, Henry James Australian Science Archives Project 1995 Physics in Australia to 1945 R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham