Thomas Percival

(1740-1804)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804 DNB: Percival, Thomas (1740–1804), physician LBT ID: ThPerci1804 VIAF ID: 56668757 LOC ID: n50009662	B/BAP: 1740-09-29 DIED: 1804-08-20
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English physician educated at the Warrington Academy and Edinburgh University; he was a founder of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society (1781).
REFERENCES TO Thomas Percival: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. I. 1747-1752 Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch. III. 1761-1765 Found 1: ¶ 7 Ch XI. 1816-1820 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 5 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter II. 1781-1787 Found 1: ¶ 57