Background
PICKERING, Percival Spencer Umfreville was born in 1858. Son of Percival A. Pickering, Queen’s Counsel, and Anna Maria, daughter of John Spencer Stanhope, Cannon Hall, Barnsley.
PICKERING, Percival Spencer Umfreville was born in 1858. Son of Percival A. Pickering, Queen’s Counsel, and Anna Maria, daughter of John Spencer Stanhope, Cannon Hall, Barnsley.
Studied at Eton and Balliol College Oxford. 1st class Honours in Science, 1880. Master of Arts.
Lecturer on Chemistry at Bedford College, 1881-1888. Director of the Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm; Investigator in Chemical Physics.
Fellow of the Royal Society 1890. Club: Athenaeum.
Horticulture, cycling.