found: Guardian WWW site, viewed Apr. 28, 2017(Sir Julian Priestley; Julian Gordon Priestley, civil servant, born 26 May 1950, Croydon, south London; died 22 April 2017; one of the most senior Britons in the European Union, the secretary general of its parliament for 10 years; rose through international bureaucracy of the parliament, serving as secretary to the budget committee, then the staff committee; had been secretary general of the socialist group of MEPs for five years and in 1997 became secretary general of the parliament itself; took early retirement from the parliament in 2007; lived in Luxembourg; following his retirement, he wrote five books with European themes, mainly about the institutions but including most recently a novel, Putsch! (2016); lectured at the College of Europe in Bruges; following the Brexit vote, Priestley told friends that he had taken Luxembourgeois citizenship and joined the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' party)