| Authorised form of name | Percy; John (1817 - 1889); metallurgist |
| Dates | 1817 - 1889 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 23 March 1817 |
| Place of death | 1 Gloucester Crescent, Paddington, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 19 June 1889 |
| Occupation | Metallurgist |
| Research field | Medicine |
| Metallurgy |
| Chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
Private school at Southampton; MD (1838, Edinburgh)
Career:
Studied medicine in Paris, under Gay Lussac and Antoine de Jussieu; Physician, Queen's Hospital, Birmingham (1839); worked with David Forbes and William Hallowes Miller on crystallized slags (1846); Lecturer in metallurgy and metallurgist to the museum, Metropolitan School of Science (later Royal School of Mines) (1851-1879); appointed lecturer on metallurgy to the artillery officers at Woolwich (1864-1889); superintendent of ventilation of the houses of parliament (1865); member of the secretary for war's commissions on the application of iron for defensive purposes (1861) and on Gibraltar shields (1867), and of the royal commissions on coal (1871) and the spontaneous combustion of coal in ships (1875)
Memberships:
Geological Society
Awards/Medals:
Bessemer medal of the Iron and Steel Institute 1876
Albert gold medal of the Society of Arts 1889 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 22/04/1847 |
| Age at election | 30 |
| Proposer | Michael Faraday |
| Golding Bird |
| William Robert Grove |
| William Benjamin Carpenter |
| John Gould |
| William Allen Miller |
| Hugh Falconer |
| Edward Forbes |
| Henry Thomas De la Beche |
| Edward Solly |
| Leaonard Horner |
| Richard Phillips |
| John Forbes Royle |
| Charles Lyell |
| Thomas Bell |
| Thomas Graham |
| Richard Partridge |
| RSActivity | Council: 1857-1859
Clubs:
Royal Society Dining Club, 1853-1889 (Treasurer 1855-1866) |
| Relationships | Parents: Henry Percy, solicitor.
Spouse: (m. 1839) Grace Mary (d. 1880), daughter of J. E. Piercy, of Warley Hall, Birmingham. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 58652
RCN 58653 |
| OtherInfo | Eminent for his acquaintance with organic and metallurigcal chemistry.
His collection of metallurgical specimens was deposited in the museum at South Kensington. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1889 vol 46 pp xxxv-xl signed by W C R-A |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/9836037 |
| Code | NA2658 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1847/19 | Percy, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/3/122 | Referee's report by John Percy, on a paper 'On the molecular properties of antimony' by George Gore | 3 March 1858 |
| RR/3/105 | Referee's report by John Percy, on a paper 'Experimental relations of gold (and other metals) to light' by Michael Faraday | 14 May 1857 |
| RR/2/56 | Referee's report by John Percy, on a paper 'On the application of Potash as a test for Manganese' by Edmund Davy | 27 April 1854 |
| MC/6/194 | Letter from John Percy, Jermyn Street, to General [Edward] Sabine, [President of the Royal Society] | 6 January 1862 |
| RR/5/143 | Referee's report by John Percy, on a paper 'On new cornish minerals of the brochantite group' by Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne | 15 June 1865 |
| MC/5/226 | Letter from Robert Mallet, Delville, Co Dublin, to Colonel [Edward] Sabine, [Treasurer of the Royal Society] | 11 February 1856 |
| MC/6 | Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1859-1863 |
| MC/10/246 | Letter from John Percy, House of Commons, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 26 April 1875 |
| MC/10 | Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | July 1873-1876 |
| MC/11/68 | Letter from John Percy, House of Commons, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 5 June 1877 |
| MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |
| PP/10/12 | Paper, 'Contributions to the metallurgy of bismuth' by Edward Matthey | 1886 |
| MC/17/325 | Report of Committee on Injury to Portrait of Newton | c.1858 |
| MC/17 | Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1897-1899 |
| MC/5 | Volume 5 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1851-1858 |