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Authorised form of namePickering; Percival Spencer Umfreville (1858 - 1920)
Dates1858 - 1920
Date of birth06 March 1858
Date of death05/12/1920
Research fieldChemistry
Physics
ActivityEducation:
Eton School; Balliol College Oxford. MA
Career:
Director, Woburn experimental fruit farm
Memberships:
FCS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/06/1890
RelationshipsSon of Percival A. Pickering QC, and his wife Anna, daughter of John Spencer Stanhope
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1926 vol 111 pp viii-xii, plate, signed by A H
CodeNA7012
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1890/11Pickering, Percival Spencer Umfreville: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/003582Pickering, Percival Spencer Umfrevillend
IM/Maull/003581Pickering, Percival Spencer Umfreville1893
NLB/4/1109Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering, Fellow of the Royal Society19 January 1891
NLB/10/782Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons[February 1895]
NLB/13/783Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering, Fellow of the Royal Society, Harpenden, Hertfordshire24 November 1896
NLB/13/786Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society25 November 1896
NLB/16/192Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to S P [P S] Pickering, Fellow of the Royal Society16 February 1898
NLB/19/160Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering, Fellow of the Royal Society, Harpenden, Hertfordshire3 July 1899
NLB/22/197Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Percival Spencer Umfreville] Pickering, Fellow of the Royal Society20 March 1901
NLB/23/1/316Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering, Fellow of the Royal Society[24 October 1901]
NLB/35/148Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering, Fellow of the Royal Society26 April 1907
NLB/36/554Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Spencer Percival Umfreville Pickering, Fellow of the Royal Society14 November 1907
NLB/44/45Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Spencer Pickering FRS 26 April 1911
NLB/51/794Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Percial Spencer Umfreville Pickering FRS1 July 1915
NLB/52/144Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Spencer Percival Umfreville Pickering FRS23 September 1915
NLB/53/290Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Percival] Spencer [Umfreville] Pickering, Esq., FRS29 June 1916
NLB/54/63Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Percival] Spencer Pickering Esquire, FRS31 January 1917
NLB/54/310Copy letter from Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Percival] Spencer Umfreville [Pickering] Esquire, FRS30 March 1917
NLB/54/146Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Longbourne] Callendar, Chairman of the Physics and Chemistry Committee and FRS17 February 1917
NLB/54/249Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Hugh Longbourne] Callendar, Chairman of the Physics and Chemistry Committee and FRS16 March 1917
RR/23/74Referee's report by Alexander Scott, on a paper 'Problems bearing on residual affinity' by Percival Spencer Umfreville PickeringFebruary 1917
NLB/59/62Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Percival Spencer Umfreville] Pickering Esquire, FRS13 July 1920
NLB/55/509Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Percival Spencer Umfreville] Pickering, FRS02 May 1918
NLB/55/449Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Percival] Spencer Pickering Esq., FRS09 April 1918
NLB/60/760Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Beechcroft, Hay & Ledward; 9 Theobald's Road, London, W.C.l.4 April 1921
RR/23/72Referee's report by Frederick George Donnan, on a paper 'Problems bearing on residual affinity' by Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering1916
NLB/61/582Copy letter from Frederick Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Edward John] Russell, FRS10 August 1921
NLB/64/465Copy letter from David Prain, Treasurer of the Royal Society; to Mrs. [Percival] Spencer [Umfreville] Pickering; Woolacombe, Devon18 April 1923
NLB/62/554Copy letter from David Prain, Treasurer and Vice President of the Royal Society; to Messrs Beachcroft, Hay & Ledward; 9 Theobald's Road, London, W.C.l.9 March 1922
NLB/64/918Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs. Beachcroft, Hay and Ledward, London, W.C.110 July 1923
NLB/64/804Copy letter from David Prain, Treasurer of the Royal Society; to Messr Beachcroft, Hay & Ledward.21 June 1923
NLB/60/750Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Beachcroft, Hay & Ledward; 9 Theobalds Road, W.C.l.23 March 1921
NLB/69/462Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof [Arthur] Harden, FRS22 April 1926
NLB/70/794Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Henry Edward] Armstrong, FRS26 September 1927
NLB/68/325Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Henry Edward] Armstrong, FRS18 June 1925
NLB/5/57Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Spencer Pickering, Fellow of the Royal Society, Harpenden, Hertfordshire2 March 1891
NLB/62/221Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir David Prain, Treasurer and Vice President of the Royal Society5 January 1922
RR/23/73Referee's report by William Jackson Pope, on a paper 'Problems bearing on residual affinity' by Percival Spencer Umfreville PickeringNovember 1916
NLB/52New Letter Book volume 52, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration9 July 1915-8 March 1916
RR/15/267Referee's report by Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering, on a paper 'Some physical properties of nitric acid solutions' by Victor Herbert Veley and J J ManleyMarch 1901
RR/14/246Referee's report by Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering, on a paper 'Researches in absolute mercurial thermometry' by Sidney A Sworn17 July 1899
RR/13/43Referee's report by Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering, on a paper 'Complete freezing-point curves of binary alloys containing silver or copper, together with another metal' by Charles Thomas Heycock and Francis Henry NevilleJuly 1896
RR/13/153Referee's report by Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering, on a paper 'Experimental proof of van 't Hoff's law' by Meyer Wildermann2 December 1896
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