Jonathan Priestman

Jonathan Priestman (1786–1863) was an English Quaker businessman and minister in Newcastle upon Tyne. He was a major shareholder in the Consett Iron Company, a director of the Great North of England Railway, and one of the founders of the Northumberland and Durham District Bank that failed in 1857. He was the father of the reformers Margaret Tanner and Anna Maria Priestman, and father-in-law of the Radical politician John Bright.

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