Some of his names survived the editing of Kellett, such as Chauncey, Shaw, Decatur, Jones, Blakely, Perry, Sinclair, Lawrence, Gordon, and Percival, all named after American naval officers.

* Amy Lowell ( 1874 – 1925 ), poet, critic, publisher, and sister of Abbott Lawrence and Percival Lowell

* Augustus Lowell ( 1830 – 1900 ), businessman, philanthropist, and father of Percival, Abbott Lawrence, and Amy Lowell

* Percival Lowell ( 1855 – 1916 ), author, astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory, and brother of Amy and Abbott Lawrence Lowell

* Amy Lowell, poet, critic, publisher, and sister of Abbott Lawrence and Percival Lowell

* Augustus Lowell, businessman, philanthropist, and father of Percival, Abbott Lawrence, and Amy Lowell

* Percival Lowell, author, astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory, and brother of Amy and Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Among those, Abbott Lawrence, Amy, Augustus, Carey, Charles Russell Sr., Charles Russell, Edward Jackson, Francis Cabot, Guy, John Amory, Judge John, Percival, and Robert are known to be descendants of Percival Lowle.

John the younger, known within his family as The Boston Rebel, and later as The Roxbury Farmer for his love of agriculture and support of botanical studies, produced the clan line that included businessmen ( John Amory Lowell, Augustus Lowell, and Ralph Lowell ), federal judges ( John Lowell and James Arnold Lowell ) and siblings ( author and innovator Percival Lowell, Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, and poet Amy Lowell ).

A large crew of skilled animators, including ( in alphabetical order ) Alan Ball, Ron Campbell, John Challis, Hester Coblentz, Geoff Collins, Rich Cox, Duane Crowther, Tony Cuthbert, Malcolm Draper, Paul Driessen, Cam Ford, Norm Drew, Tom Halley, Dick Horne, Arthur Humberstone, Dennis Hunt, Diane Jackson, Anne Jolliffe, Dave Livesey, Reg Lodge, Geoff Loynes, Lawrence Moorcroft, Ted Percival, Mike Pocock and Gerald Potterton was responsible for bringing the animated Beatles to life.

While a young researcher working for the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Tombaugh was given the job to perform a systematic search for a trans-Neptunian planet ( also called Planet X ), which had been predicted by Percival Lowell and William Pickering.

He said he became interested in the concept after reading a translation of the work of Percival Lowell as a child.

Before the Mariner 4 spacecraft arrived at Mars in July 1965 and dispelled some of the more exotic theories about the planet, the conventional image of Mars was shaped by the observations of the astronomers Giovanni Schiaparelli and Percival Lowell.

* In Mass Effect ( 2007 ), an expedition launched by the European Space Agency discovers an ancient cache of advanced technology leftover from an alien race known as the Protheans ( The capitol of Mars is called " Lowell city " probably named after Percival Lowell who fueled the believe in possibility of alien structures on Mars ).

* 1916 – Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer ( b. 1855 )

Percival Lowell, originator of the Planet X hypothesis

The search began in the mid-19th century and culminated at the start of the 20th with Percival Lowell's quest for Planet X. Lowell proposed the Planet X hypothesis to explain apparent discrepancies in the orbits of the gas giants, particularly Uranus and Neptune, speculating that the gravity of a large unseen ninth planet could have perturbed Uranus enough to account for the irregularities.

In 1894, with the help of William Pickering, Percival Lowell, a wealthy Bostonian, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Constance Lowell, Percival Lowell's widow, subsequently embroiled the observatory in a long legal battle to secure its million-dollar portion of Lowell's legacy for herself, which meant that the search for Planet X could not resume for several years.

The decision to name the object Pluto was intended in part to honour Percival Lowell, as his initials made up the word's first two letters.

Percival Lowell was a descendant of the Boston Lowell family.

Books by Percival Lowell on the Orient include Chosön: The Land of the Morning Calm ( 1886, Boston ), Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan ( 1891 ) and Occult Japan, or the Way of the Gods ( 1894 ); the latter from his third and final trip to the region.

* November 12 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer ( b. 1855 )

* March 13 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer ( d. 1916 )

Based on this and other evidence, the idea that Mars was inhabited by intelligent life was put forward by a number of prominent scientists around the turn of the century, notably American astronomer Percival Lowell.

The idea of intelligent Martians was popularized by Percival Lowell and in fiction, especially by Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter ( Barsoom ) series, H. G.

In 1894, Massachusetts astronomer Percival Lowell hired A. E. Douglass to scout an ideal site for a new observatory.

The background of Mars presented in the novel, as a desert planet crisscrossed by giant canals built by an ancient civilization to bring water from the polar ice caps, is a common scenario in science fiction novels of the early 20th century, and was actually put forward as a plausible theory by some astronomers around the turn of the century, notably Percival Lowell mentioned in the novel.

Alan John Percival Taylor, FBA ( 25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990 ) was a British historian who specialised in 19th and 20th century European diplomacy.

Cecil Percival Taylor ( born March 25, 1929 ) is an American pianist and poet.

*** " King of Hearts " ( with Nick Percival, in 2000 AD # 1033-1039, March – April 1997 )

However, from the second half of the 1934 – 35 season, Busby's number 4 jersey was worn by Jack Percival with increasing regularity, and Busby was sold to Liverpool for £ 8, 000 on 12 March 1936, having made more than 200 appearances for Manchester City.

Percival was made a full colonel in March 1936, and until 1938 he was General Staff Officer Grade 1 in Malaya, the Chief of Staff to General Dobbie, the General Officer Commanding in Malaya.

James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, refers to " Buttiphante " in a letter of January 1684 ( Carte Manuscripts, Bodleian, 161, f. 47v ), while Sir John Percival, progenitor of the Earls of Egmont, recorderd in his diary for the 16 March 1686 that the troopers " being att Buttevant Fair this day took Will Tirry and his wife and brought them hither and I examined them ".

Colonel Sir Percival Scrope Marling, 3rd Baronet VC, CB, DL ( 6 March 1861 – 29 May 1936 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Percival Colin " Percy " Montgomery ( born 15 March 1974 in Walvis Bay, South Africa, now Namibia ) is a retired South African rugby union player.

* 18 March – An ex-Rhodesian Royal Air Force Percival Provost Mk 52, which had only recently been restored to flying condition by the South African Air Force Museum.

* Colin Percival: Cache Missing for Fun and Profit, 13 May 2005 ( pdf file )

* November 11 – 13-Jean Batten becomes the first woman to fly solo across the South Atlantic, taking 2 days 13 hours from England to cross from Senegal to Brazil in a Percival Gull.

The CAA and its predecessors have operated 50 aircraft of 13, primarily British, aircraft types including de Havilland Tiger Moths, Avro Ansons, Airspeed Consuls, Percival Princes, de Havilland Doves, Hawker Siddeley HS 748s and Hawker Siddeley HS 125s.

However, the Allies lost more ground on 13 February, and Bennett and other senior officers advised Percival to surrender, in the interests of minimising civilian casualties.