Donald Priestley

Donald Lacey Priestley (né Priestlay; 28 July 1887 – 30 October 1917) was an English cricketer who played for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club from 1909 to 1910. He made his debut in the County Championship against Sussex at the County Ground, Hove. In May 1910, he scored fifty-one runs against Hampshire at the County Ground, Southampton. His final first class appearance for Gloucestershire was against Worcestershire at the War Memorial Ground, Stourbridge.

He was the third son of a Tewkesbury head teacher and the younger brother of Joseph Priestley, professor of botany at the University of Leeds, and Raymond Priestley, the British geologist and Antarctic explorer. He was educated at his father's school before joining his mother's family firm as a commercial representative and wheat buyer. In May 1912, he married Edith Louie Boughton in the Wesleyan chapel at Coombe Hill, Leigh.

He was a volunteer in the 5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, and during World War I, joined the Artists Rifles regiment under the Derby Scheme. He was posted to France in November 1916 and fought in the Second Battle of Arras. He was killed by shell fire during the Second Battle of Passchendaele and is commemorated on the Memorial to the Missing at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Tyne Cot cemetery, near Passchendaele, Belgium.