Short answers, pulled from the story.
James Prescott Joule was born on the 24th of December 1818 in Salford. His family home sat on New Bailey Street while his father Benjamin owned a brewery that provided wealth and stability for the household.
James Prescott Joule performed his famous paddle wheel experiment in Cambridge during June 1845. Falling weights spun blades inside insulated water barrels to demonstrate how gravity performed mechanical work raising the water temperature measurably.
James Prescott Joule met William Thomson during a trip to Chamonix later in 1847 following their marriage to Amelia Grimes on the 18th of August. Their partnership lasted from 1852 to 1856 producing discoveries including the Joule-Thomson effect and general acceptance of kinetic theory.
James Prescott Joule received Fellow status from the Royal Society in 1850 and the Royal Medal in 1852 for his paper on mechanical equivalent of heat printed in Philosophical Transactions. He also won the Copley Medal in 1870 for experimental researches on dynamical theory of heat and served as President of Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society during 1860.
James Prescott Joule died at home in Sale on the 11th of October 1889. He is buried in Brooklands cemetery there though a memorial exists in Westminster Abbey north choir aisle alongside a statue by Alfred Gilbert standing in Manchester Town Hall.