John Percy

John Percy (Piercey; alias John Fisher) (27 September 1569 at Holmeside, Durham – 3 December 1641 in London) was an English Jesuit priest and controversialist.

Life

A Catholic convert aged 14, he went first to Reims, in 1586, then to the English College, Rome, 1589-94. Returning to Belgium, he entered the Jesuit novitiate, 2 May 1594, and then set out for England in 1596. He was, however, arrested by the Dutch, tortured, and sent prisoner to London.

He managed to escape, and became the companion of Father Gerard in several adventures. He was seized at Great Harrowden (November, 1605) at the time of the Gunpowder Plot, but was eventually banished at the request of the Spanish ambassador (1606). Retiring to Belgium he was for a time head of the English Jesuits, then professor of Scripture at the Jesuit house of studies in Leuven, after which he returned again to England.

He was again imprisoned and condemned to death (1610). He had already begun to write on current controversies, and when James I of England desired a series of disputations in 1622, Percy, who was then in a prison in London, was required to defend the Catholic side. In these disputations King James himself and William Laud took a leading part. These controversies were afterwards printed and discussed by Percy and John Floyd on the Catholic side, and by Laud, Francis White, John White, Daniel Featley, and Anthony Wotton on the Protestant.

John Percy (disambiguation)

John Percy (1569–1641) was a Jesuit.

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John Percy (metallurgist)

John Percy (23 March 1817 – 19 June 1889) was an English metallurgist.

Life

The third son of Henry Percy, a solicitor, he was born at Nottingham on 23 March 1817. He went to a private school at Southampton, and then returned to Nottingham, where he attended chemical lectures by a Mr. Grisenthwaite at the local school of medicine. He wished to become a chemist; but his father's wish was that he should graduate in medicine, and in April 1834 he was taken by his brother Edmund to Paris to begin his medical studies. While in Paris he attended the lectures of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis Jacques Thénard on chemistry, and of Antoine Laurent de Jussieu on botany.

In 1836 Percy went for a tour in Switzerland and the south of France, and made a collection of mineralogical and botanical specimens. He went on to Edinburgh, where he became a pupil of Sir Charles Bell and a friend of Edward Forbes. In 1838 he graduated M.D. in the university, and received a gold medal for a thesis on the presence of alcohol in the brain after poisoning by that substance. In 1839 he was elected physician to the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, but, having private means, did not practise.

John Percy (politician)

John Percy is the current leader of the Green Party of Nova Scotia. His political involvement started in high school as a volunteer for the Liberals. In the past he also volunteered for Joe Clark's federal campaign. He was a candidate for Member of Parliament in Sackville—Eastern Shore in the 2011 Canadian federal election. He also ran in the 2009 Nova Scotia provincial election in Richmond and a 2010 provincial by-election in Yarmouth. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Toronto.

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