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Authorised form of nameConroy; Sir; John (1845 - 1900)
Dates1845 - 1900
NationalityBritish
Place of birthKensington
Date of birth16 August 1845
Date of death15/12/1900
ActivityEducation:
Eton; Christ Church, Oxford. MA
Career:
Fellow and Bedford Lecturer, Balliol College, Oxford
Memberships:
FCS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election04/06/1891
RelationshipsSon of Sir Edward Conroy 2nd Bart and his wife Lady Alicia Parsons, daughter of Lawrence Parson 2nd Earl of Rosse; succeeded 3rd Bart
SourceSources:
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
CodeNA8180
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1891/06Conroy, Sir John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/10/254Referee'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 Conroy19 December 1888
NLB/3/310Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs West, Newman & Company6 May 1889
NLB/3/960Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to [John William Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, [Royal Society]25 November 1889
NLB/5/436Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons10 June 1891
NLB/3/1021Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Arthur Schuster, Fellow of the Royal Society13 December 1889
NLB/3/1037Copy letter from [John William Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, to Sir John Conroy19 December 1889
NLB/17/781Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Sir John Conroy, Fellow of the Royal Society19 December 1898
NLB/16/637Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir John Conroy, Balliol College, Oxford10 May 1898
NLB/17/782Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society19 December 1898
NLB/18/664Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir John Conroy, Fellow of the Royal Society, Balliol College, Oxford18 April 1899
RR/10/255Referee'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 Conroynd [1889]
RR/12/296Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On the refractive index of water at temperatures between 0° and 10°' by John Conroy20 June 1895
RR/12/295Referee's report by Richard Tetley Glazebrook, on a paper 'On the refractive index of water at temperatures between 0° and 10°' by John Conroy12 June 1895
NLB/3/956Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Royal Society]23 November 1889
RR/10/256Referee'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]
PP/2/45Paper, 'Note on the absorption spectrum of iodine in a solution in carbon disulphide' by William De Wiveleslie Abney and Edward Robert Festing1883
PP/2/45/1Manuscript, 'Note on the absorption spectrum of iodine in a solution in carbon disulphide' by William De Wiveleslie Abney and Edward Robert Festing1883
PP/3/4/2Diagram, experimental equipment by John Conroy1882
PP/4/17Paper, 'On the amount of light reflected by metallic surfaces' by John Conroy1883
PP/5/6Paper, 'Some experiments on metallic reflection. V. On the amount of light reflected by metallic surfaces. III' by John Conroy1884
PP/8/11Paper, 'On the polarisation of light by reflection from the surface of a crystal of Iceland spar' by John Conroy[1885-1886]
PP/15/7Paper, 'Some observations on the amount of luminous and non-luminous radiation emitted by a gas flame' by John Conroy1889
PP/3/4Paper, 'On the amount of light reflected by metallic surfaces' by John Conroy1882
PP/3/4/1Manuscript, 'On the amount of light reflected by metallic surfaces' by John Conroy1882
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