LC control no. | no2001037046 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Percy, John, 1817-1889 |
Variant(s) | Percy, J. (John), 1817-1889 |
Located | Paris (France) Edinburgh (Scotland) Birmingham (England) |
Address | 1 Gloucester Crescent, Hyde Park London England |
Birth date | 18170323 |
Death date | 18890619 |
Place of birth | Nottingham (England) |
Place of death | London (England) |
Field of activity | Metallurgy Photography College teaching |
Affiliation | Royal School of Mines (Great Britain) Royal Society (Great Britain) Photographic Society Club Iron and Steel Institute |
Profession or occupation | Metallurgists Photographers College teachers |
Found in | Catalogue of the collection of metallurgical specimens formed by the late John Percy ... now in the South Kensington Museum, 1892: p. x (Dr. Percy; d. 1889) NUC pre-56 (hdg.: Percy, John, 1817-1889; usages: John Percy, J. Percy, Dr. Percy) Rules of the Photographic Society Club, 1856: leaf 5 recto (list of club members, including "John Percy Esq., M.D., F.R.S.") Seiberling, Grace. Amateurs, photography and the Victorian imagination, 1986: page 141 (in Biographical appendix, by Carolyn Bloore: John Percy, 1817-1889; born 23 March 1817 in Nottingham; studied medicine in Paris and Edinburgh, where he received an M.D. in 1838; did not practice, but turned to metallurgy, especially the study of ores; lectured at Metropolitan School of Science, afterwards the Royal School of Mines; was professor there until 1879; experimented with the chemistry of photography and took photographs himself; seems to have given up photography in the 1860s; collected prints and watercolors; when he died, his collection of metallurgical specimens went to the South Kensington Museum) Oxford DNB, June 3, 2014 (Percy, John (1817-1889), metallurgist; born Nottingham, 23 March 1817; beginning in April 1834, medical studies in Paris; in 1836, toured Switzerland and the south of France, and compiled a large collection of mineralogical and botanical specimens; in the same year, went to Edinburgh and graduated MD there in 1838; in 1839, elected physician to the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, but, having private means, did not practice; worked in metallugy; in 1847, became a fellow of the Royal Society, and served on the council from 1857 to 1859; in 1851, elected fellow of the Geological Society and appointed lecturer on metallurgy and metallurgist to the museum at the Metropolitan School of Science in London [afterwards the Royal School of Mines]; the post was later made a professorship; author of Treatise on metallurgy, 1861-1880; in 1876, awarded the Bessemer medal of the Iron and Steel Institute, of which he was an honorary member, serving as president, 1885-1886; after a dispute, resigned from Royal School of Mines in 1879; died at his home, 1 Gloucester Crescent, Hyde Park, London, on 19 June 1889) |
Associated language | eng |