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Percy, John, 1817-1889

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Personal name headingPercy, John, 1817-1889
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Variant(s)Percy, J. (John), 1817-1889
LocatedParis (France) Edinburgh (Scotland) Birmingham (England)
Address1 Gloucester Crescent, Hyde Park London England
Birth date18170323
Death date18890619
Place of birthNottingham (England)
Place of deathLondon (England)
Field of activityMetallurgy Photography College teaching
AffiliationRoyal School of Mines (Great Britain) Royal Society (Great Britain) Photographic Society Club Iron and Steel Institute
Profession or occupationMetallurgists Photographers College teachers
Found inCatalogue 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)
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