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Authorised form of nameGilchrist; Percy Carlyle (1851 - 1935)
Dates1851 - 1935
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLyme Regis, Dorset, England
Date of birth27 December 1851
Place of deathPinner, Middlesex
Date of death15 or 16 December 1935
ActivityEducation:
Felsted School (1862-1867); Royal School of Mines
Career:
Co-invented the process of making steel from phosphous iron, known as Thomas-Gilchrist process; Vice President, Iron and Steel Institute
Memberships:
ARSM; MICE; MIMechE
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election04/06/1891
RelationshipsEldest son of Alexander Gilchrist, barrister, and Anne Burrowes; married (1877) Nora, daughter of Captain L N Fitzmaurice RN
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB (MP)
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1936-1938 vol 2 pp 19-24, plate, by H C H Carpenter
Notes:
DNB gives death date as 15 December 1935
Royal Society codeNA1464
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1891/11Gilchrist, Percy Carlyle: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/001653Gilchrist, Percy Carlylend
NLB/13/580Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society, Frognal Bank, Finchley Road, Hampstead, N.W. 10 October 1896
NLB/5/1118Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society6 January 1892
NLB/5/1258Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society5 February 1892
NLB/5/1093Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society4 January 1892
NLB/10/475Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Harrison & Sons4 December 1894
NLB/10/420Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster21 November 1894
NLB/9/383Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society9 May 1894
NLB/10/479Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society4 December 1894
NLB/10/1Copy letter from A H White, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society17 August 1894
NLB/10/433Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen23 November 1894
NLB/10/488Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons4 December 1894
NLB/8/661Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society5 December 1893
NLB/10/432Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster23 November 1894
NLB/9/286Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society16 April 1894
NLB/9/369Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society26 April 1894
NLB/9/436Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society18 May 1894
NLB/9/521Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society31 May 1894
NLB/9/470Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Percy Caryle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society23 May 1894
NLB/9/718Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society, Frognal Bank, Finchley Road, Hampstead, N.W.5 July 1894
NLB/9/716Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society5 July 1894
NLB/9/331Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society30 April 1894
NLB/17/296Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Caryle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society, Frognal Bank, Finchley Road, Hampstead, N.W. 6 October 1898
NLB/13/610Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society15 October 1896
NLB/14/92Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society4 January 1897
NLB/29/791Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society12 December 1904
NLB/18/169Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to P C Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society30 January 1899
NLB/17/286Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society, Frognal Bank, Finchley Road, Hampstead, N.W.3 October 1898
NLB/18/827Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons29 May 1899
NLB/19/724Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons3 December 1899
NLB/20/73Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons26 January 1900
NLB/32/386Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]2 March 1906
NLB/29/755Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society6 December 1904
NLB/33/301Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society, Baschurch, Salop31 July 1906
NLB/29/817Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society14 December 1904
NLB/32/366Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society27 February 1906
NLB/33/522Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society21 September 1906
NLB/33/230Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society, Baschurch, Salop20 July 1906
MC/21/253Note regarding volumes of Proceedings for Precy Carlyle Gilchrist1906
NLB/33/276Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Socity, Baschurch, Salop27 July 1906
NLB/33/532Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society, Baschurch, Salop24 September 1906
NLB/35/28Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society5 April 1907
NLB/34/276Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society20 December 1906
NLB/34/688Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society26 February 1907
NLB/46/110Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society11 June 1912
NLB/52/197Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Publications, The Royal Society 12 October 1915
NLB/9New Letter Book volume 9, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration8 March-17 August 1894
NLB/9/223Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society18 April 1894
NLB/9/463Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Frognal Bank, Finchley Road, Hampstead, N.W.22 May 1894
NLB/9/368Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society, 101 Palace Chambers, Westminster7 May 1894
NLB/13/645Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society23 October 1896
MC/19/331Letter from Percy [Carlyle] Gilchrist, France, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, London4 December 1904
MC/19/332Letter from Percy [Carlyle] Gilchrist, France, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society12 December 1904
MC/21Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1906
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
MC/21/252Post Office Telegraphs [Percy Carlyle Gilchrist], to the Royal Society1906
MC/21/257Letter from Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Baschurch, to the Royal Society, Burlington House, London26 September 1906
NLB/32/549Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Fellow of the Royal Society31 March 1906
MC/21/258Letter from Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Baschurch, to the Royal Society, Burlington House, London20 October 1906
MC/21/255Letter from Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Baschurch, to the Secretaries and Assistants of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London26 July 1906
MC/21/256Letter from Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Baschurch, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society20 September 1906
MC/21/254Letter from Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, Baschurch, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London20 July 1906
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