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This article is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (color, defense, traveled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

Spelling style?

Greetings and felicitations. The notice above on this talk page states that this article uses American spelling, which agrees with the comment just below the article's infobox ("The article was started in US spelling and contains a number of US-spelled citations by Schofield. Thus please keep it in US spelling. Or else."), but the article also has a "{{Use British English|date=September 2013}}" template. A search of the archives here was inconclusive. What's the actual consensus? —DocWatson42 (talk) 00:54, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Descendants

I've expanded the article with a section near the end on Priestley's descendants/lineage. It is significant that Priestley's direct descendants include H.H. Richardson, probably the greatest American architect of the 19th century, and this should be included (in fact it is NOT in other parts of the article). This information is well-sourced and cited (and widely available, hence also worthy of encyclopedic mention). Absecon 49 (talk) 10:12, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi Absecon 49, you will need to get consensus here before restoring your proposed edit. As to the sourcing, it does not appear that the information is wholly supported by the citations given - for example, that "Henry Dickinson Richardson" (the source has a different spelling) was a partner in a hardware firm does not AFAICS appear in either source. Nikkimaria (talk) 15:48, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

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