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2 unusual facts about John Percival


Bristol Medical School

The Library and the Museum were promoters of the scheme for a College of Science which John Percival and Benjamin Jowett were able to translate into University College, Bristol.

Henrietta Johnston

It was during this time that Johnston began to draw pastels, in the process depicting a number of powerful people to whom she was related by marriage; among these were John Percival, later to become Earl of Egmont, and one of the Earls of Barrymore.


Dominique Lefèbvre

The US Captain John Percival of the USS Constitution failed in his attempts to have him released, but managed to inform Admiral Jean-Baptiste Cécille who obtained his release.


see also

John Percival Postgate

John Percival Postgate (24 October 1853 – 15 July 1926) was an English classicist, professor of Latin at the University of Liverpool from 1909 to 1920.

St Paul's Church, Whitley Bay

A former organist, John Percival Forster, was killed in the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916.