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Authorised form of name	Conroy; Sir; John (1845 - 1900)
Dates	1845 - 1900
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Kensington
Date of birth	16 August 1845
Date of death	15/12/1900
Activity	Education: Eton; Christ Church, Oxford. MA Career: Fellow and Bedford Lecturer, Balliol College, Oxford Memberships: FCS
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	04/06/1891
Relationships	Son of Sir Edward Conroy 2nd Bart and his wife Lady Alicia Parsons, daughter of Lawrence Parson 2nd Earl of Rosse; succeeded 3rd Bart
Sources	Sources: Bulloch's Roll Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 246-252, signed by A V H References: Edmund J Bowen, 'The Balliol-Trinity Laboratories, Oxford 1853-1940' in NR 1970 vol 25 pp 227-236
Royal Society code	NA8180

Archives associated with this Fellow

Reference number	Title	Date
EC/1891/06	Conroy, Sir John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/3/310	Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs West, Newman & Company	6 May 1889
NLB/3/960	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to [John William Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, [Royal Society]	25 November 1889
NLB/5/436	Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	10 June 1891
NLB/3/1021	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Arthur Schuster, Fellow of the Royal Society	13 December 1889
NLB/3/1037	Copy letter from [John William Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, to Sir John Conroy	19 December 1889
NLB/17/781	Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Sir John Conroy, Fellow of the Royal Society	19 December 1898
NLB/16/637	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir John Conroy, Balliol College, Oxford	10 May 1898
NLB/17/782	Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society	19 December 1898
NLB/18/664	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir John Conroy, Fellow of the Royal Society, Balliol College, Oxford	18 April 1899
RR/10/255	Referee's report by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, on a paper 'Some observations on the amount of light reflected and transmitted by certain kinds of glass' by John Conroy	nd [1889]
RR/10/256	Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'Some observations on the amount of luminous and non-luminous radiation emitted by a gas flame' by John Conroy	[1889]
RR/12/295	Referee's report by Richard Tetley Glazebrook, on a paper 'On the refractive index of water at temperatures between 0° and 10°' by John Conroy	12 June 1895
RR/12/296	Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On the refractive index of water at temperatures between 0° and 10°' by John Conroy	20 June 1895
RR/10/254	Referee's report by Arthur William Rucker, on a paper 'Some observations on the amount of light reflected and transmitted by certain kinds of glass' by John Conroy	19 December 1888
NLB/3/956	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Royal Society]	23 November 1889

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