1592997353000 1566213830000 Standard Record object-228810 1747246180344 1711458118000 1747245848757 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-228810 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/228810 671896f8-cc87-391c-a984-34377b9e78e0 5 reference term-42993 adlib-term-42993 93884c6f-c60c-39f7-a75d-f84d65288fe0 medal reference term-39763 adlib-term-39763 02b0af8f-facb-31f1-9d3f-54fe623261ee white metal Diameter (min) mm 50.2 Diameter mm 50.2 Weight g 60.14 Object Coins and Medals CM.395-1989 1 accession number CM.395-1989 228810 priref 228810 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/228810 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/228810 Draped bust of Joseph Priestley, bare head facing left obverse JOSEPH PRIESTLEY.L. L D.F.R.S. AC.IMP.PETROP.P.R.PARIS.HOLM.TAURIN.ITAL.HARLEM.AUREL.MID.PARIS.CANTAB.AMERIC.ET PHILAD.SOCIUS. design Inscription reverse THIS TABLET IS CONSECRATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. JOSEPH PRIESTLEY,L.LD. BY HIS AFFECTIONATE CONGREGATION, IN TESTIMONY OF THEIR GRATITUDE FOR HIS FAITHFUL ATTENTION TO THEIR SPIRITUAL IMPROVEMENT, AND FORHISPECULIARDILIGENCEINTRAININGUPTHEIRYOUTH TO RATIONAL PIETY AND GENUINE VIRTUE: OF THEIR RESPECT FOR HIS GREAT AND VARIOUS TALENTS WHICH WERE UNIFORMLY DIRECTED TO THE NOBLEST PURPOSSES OF THEIR VENERATION FOR THE PURE BENEVOLENT AND HOLY PRINCIPLES, WHICH THROUGH THE TRYING VISSITUDES OF LIFE AND IN THE AWFUL HOUR OF DEATH, ANIMATED HIM IN THE HOPE OF A BLESSED IMMORTALITY. HIS DISCOVERIES AS A PHILOSOPHY WILL NEVER CEASE TO BE REMEMBERED AND ADMIRED BY THE ABLEST IMPROVERS OF SCIENCE. HIS FIRMNESS AS AN ADVOCATE OF LIBERTY AND HIS SINCERITY AS AND EXPOUNDER OF THE SCRIPTURES ENDEARED HIM TO MANY OF HIS ENLIGHTENED AND UNPRJUDICED CONTEMPARIES. HIS EXAMPLE OF A CHRISTIAN WILL BE INSTRUCTIVE TO THE WISE AND INERESTING TO THE GOOD OF EVERY COUNTRY AND IN EVERY AGE. HE WAS BORN AT FIELDHEAD, NEAR LEEDS IN YORKSHIRE. MARCH 13, A . D . 1733. WAS CHOSEN A MINISTER OF THIS CHAPEL, DEC.31.780. CONTINUED IN THAT OFFICETEN YEARS AND SIX MONTHS. EMBARKED FOR AMERICA APRIL 7.1794. DIED IN NORTHUMBERLAND TOWN IN PENNSYLVANIA. FEB . 6, 1804. In exergue: UNITARIAN CHAPEL BIRMINGHAM design reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown 1989 1989 1989 given 1804 1804 1804 engraver reference agent-177912 adlib-agent-177912 d3fcf441-9dd4-3623-8650-1b836ec17a83 Halliday, Thomas reference term-8396 adlib-term-8396 715c235d-2fad-3b71-9a65-d5db65d1b9e0 English series reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 564 138 reference publication-8642 adlib-publication-8642 3016e9d6-8cba-3ef9-b081-aa2e54fdb7dd A Catalogue of British Historical Medals, 1760-1960. Vol I: The Accession of George III to the Death of William IV

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