[ noun ] English chemist who isolated many gases and discovered oxygen (independently of Scheele) (1733-1804) <noun.person>
They include Proust, EM Forster, Aldous Huxley and JB Priestley. Here we are with the elderly music teacher at a school in the Midlands. His son is a cellist of renown whose mistress is an opera star.
He doesn't seem so. 'I crawled along, sometimes with a few benefactors' (they included TS Eliot, EM Forster, JB Priestley, Rebecca West and Isaiah Berlin).
In 1965, when the popular British novelist J.B. Priestley was 70, he decided that the reading public was finally ready for his spicy memories of life on the pre-World War I "Variety" circuit (British vaudeville).
"There aren't many companies to choose from, and most are not marketable," says Hugh Priestley, a director of Henderson Administration PLC, London.
J B Priestley's play is an impeccable example of really good middle-brow drama: full of craftsmanship, the odd surprise and several good parts.