| Authorised form of name | Perry; Stephen Joseph (1833 - 1889) |
| Dates | 1833 - 1889 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | London, England |
| Date of birth | 26 August 1833 |
| Date of death | 27 December 1889 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
Georgetown, Demerera, Guyana |
| Occupation | Roman Catholic priest |
| Research field | Astronomy |
| Magnetism |
| Activity | Education:
Douai College, France; Rome
Career:
Entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuit) (1853); went to Stonyhurst College (1856); ordained Priest (1866); Director of the Astronomical and Meteorological Observatories, Stonyhurst; Lecturer in Astronomy and Mathematics, Stonyhurst College; led several eclipse expeditions; contracted a disease whilst leading an eclipse expedition on the Isles du Salut, off French Guiana, of which he died
Memberships:
FRAS (1869)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 04/06/1874 |
| Relationships | Son of Stephen Perry, steel pen manufacturer of Red lion Square, London |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1890 vol 48 pp xii-xv signed by A A C
References:
Dr George Bishop, 'Stephen Joseph Perry 1833-1889 : priest, scientists, educator' Thesis (MSc) - UMIST, 1977
Father Cortie, 'Father Stephen Joseph Perry, SJ', The Month LXVIII (January - April 1890), p 305, p 474 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/52433282 |
| Royal Society code | NA6437 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1874/13 | Perry, Stephen Joseph: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/003524 | Perry, Stephen Joseph | nd |
| NLB/1/293 | Copy letter from John Evans, to Professor Stephen Joseph Perry | 1 December 1886 |
| NLB/3/63 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Rev Stephen Joseph Perry, Fellow of the Royal Society, Stonyhurst | 1 March 1889 |
| NLB/3/526 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Rev Stephen Joseph Perry, Fellow of the Royal Society | 4 July 1889 |
| NLB/3/533 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Rev Stephen Joseph Perry, Fellow of the Royal Society | 5 July 1889 |
| NLB/3/572 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Rev Stephen Joseph Perry, Fellow of the Royal Society | [July 1889] |
| NLB/3/621 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Rev Stephen Joseph Perry, Fellow of the Royal Society | 25 July 1889 |
| RR/7/194 | Referee's report by Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'Magnetic observations made at Stonyhurst College Observatory, from April 1863 to March 1870' by Stephen Joseph Perry | 24 July 1872 |
| RR/6/218 | Referee's report by Archibald Smith, on a paper 'Magnetic survey of the West of France, 1868' by Stephen Joseph Perry | 2 November 1869 |
| RR/7/267 | Letter from George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Magnetic survey of Belgium in 1871' by Stephen Joseph Perry | 3 March 1873 |
| RR/7/268 | Referee's report by Edward Walker, on a paper 'Magnetic survey of Belgium in 1871' by Stephen Joseph Perry | 29 April 1873 |
| RR/7/266 | Letter from Stephen Joseph Perry, on his paper 'Magnetic survey of Belgium in 1871' to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 28 February 1873 |
| NLB/3/532 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Edward Walter Maunder | 5 July 1889 |
| NLB/3/658 | Copy letter from Alfred H White, to the Rev Stephen Joseph Perry, Fellow of the Royal Society | 2 August 1889 |
| RR/7/265 | Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Magnetic survey of Belgium in 1871' by Stephen Joseph Perry | 25 February 1873 |
| RR/6/217 | Referee's report by Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'Magnetic survey of the West of France, 1868' by Stephen Joseph Perry | 13 August 1869 |
| RR/10/71 | Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Report of the observations of the total solar eclipse of August 29, 1886, made at the Island of Carriacou' by Stephen Joseph Perry and Lieutenant J Masterman | 20 August 1887 |
| PP/7/14/1 | Manuscript, 'Preliminary results of a comparison of certain simultaneous fluctuations of the declination at Kew and at Stonyhurst during the years 1883 and 1884, as recorded by the magnetographs at these observatories' by Stephen Joseph Perry and Balfour Stewart | 1885 |
| PP/7/14/2 | Diagrams, magnetic ascending and descending changes by Stephen Joseph Perry and Balfour Stewart | 1885 |
| PP/7/14 | Paper, 'Preliminary results of a comparison of certain simultaneous fluctuations of the declination at Kew and at Stonyhurst during the years 1883 and 1884, as recorded by the magnetographs at these observatories' by Stephen Joseph Perry and Balfour Stewart | 1885 |
| RR/10/70 | Referee's report by William Henry Mahoney Christie, on a paper 'Report of the observations of the total solar eclipse of August 29, 1886, made at the Island of Carriacou' by Stephen Joseph Perry and Lieutenant J Masterman | 19 August 1887 |
| RR/10/290 | Referee's report by Stephen Joseph Perry, on the Bakerian Lecture 'A magnetic survey of the British Isles for the epoch January 1, 1886' by Arthur William Rucker and Thomas Edward Thorpe | [1889] |
| MC/15/5 | Letter from [Stephen Joseph] Perry, Stonyhurst College, Blackburn, to the Royal Society | 19 January 1889 |
| MC/14/117 | Letter from [Stephen Joseph] Perry, Stonyhurst Observatory, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes | 17 March 1866 |
| MC/14 | Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1885-1888 |
| MC/15 | Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1889-1892 |
| MC/17 | Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1897-1899 |