the Papal government and was head of provisional government in
Bologna 1831; lived in England 1831–59; naturalised in England
18 Feb. 1847; held an appointment in Glasgow univ.; brought with
him from Italy a collection of pictures by the old masters which
was sold in London 1850; rector of Bologna univ. 1859; Rosa M.
Kettle in her novel My home in the shires 1876 introduced him
under the name of The Marchese di Petralva; author of I puritani
e cavalieri, a serious opera in 3 acts 1835; Malek-Adel, a drama
1837; On the language and literature of Italy, an inaugural
lecture in University college London 1838; he also published
various works in Bologna, Ginevra, Milan, and Pinerolo 1827–81.
_d._ Palazzo Pepoli, giá Albergati, Bologna 6 Dec. 1881.
_Colburn’s New monthly mag. Dec. 1882 pp._ 29–35; _Art Journal
ii_ 127 (1850).
PEPYS, HENRY (younger brother of 1 earl of Cottenham 1781–1851).
_b._ Wimpole st. London 18 April 1783; educ. Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1814, D.D. 1840; fellow of St. John’s
coll. 1804; R. of Aspeden, Herts. 1818–27; R. of Moreton,
Essex 1822–40; prebendary of Wells 3 Feb. 1826 to 1840; R. of
Westmill, Herts. 1827–40; bishop of Sodor and Man 27 Jany.
1840, consecrated at Whitehall 1 March, installed at St. Mary’s
Castleton 8 May; bishop of Worcester 4 May 1841 to death; author
of The remains of the lord viscount Royston, with a memoir
of his life 1838; Six charges and two single sermons. _d._
Hartlebury castle, Stourport, Worcs. 13 Nov. 1860. _G.M. Dec.
1860 p._ 674.
PEPYS, PHILIP HENRY (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 14 Nov.
1824; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; barrister
L.I. 8 June 1849; sec. of presentations to lord chancellor
1846–51, and 1852–62, principal sec. 1862–4; chancellor of
diocese of Worcester 1855 to death; one of the registrars of
court of bankruptcy London about 1 June 1864 to death; author
of Constance Tyrell, or the half-sister, 3 vols. 1852. _d._
Brighton 6 Feb. 1886. _Law Times 6 March 1886 p._ 330.
PEPYS, WILLIAM HASLEDINE or HASELDINE (son of W. H. Pepys of
24 The Poultry, London, cutler). _b._ London 23 March 1775; a
founder of Askesian society March 1796, which led to foundation
of British mineralogical and geological societies, and the
London institution of which he was an original manager and
honorary secretary 1821–4; treasurer of Geological society
1811, then vice-president; succeeded his father as a cutler and
carried on the business to his death; worked with Desvignes on
soda-water apparatus 1798; F.R.S. 28 Jany. 1808; president of
the Royal Institution 1816; F.L.S. 1821; invented the mercury
gasometer and water gasholder, both still in use; one of the
first to use mercury contacts for electrical apparatus and
tubes coated with indiarubber for conveying gases; invented an
eudiometer which he calibrated by a method still used for the
purpose 1807; author of many papers in Tilloch’s Philosophical
magazine, the Philosophical transactions of the Royal society,
and the Journal of science and the arts. _d._ 11 Earls terrace,
Kensington road, London 17 Aug. 1856. _Life of Wm. Allen_, 3
_vols._ (1846–7) _passim_; _F. T. Cansick’s Epitaphs ii_ 101
(1872).
PERCEVAL, ALEXANDER (2 son of rev. Philip Perceval of Temple
house, Ballymote, co. Sligo). _b._ Temple house 10 Feb. 1787;
educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; lieut. colonel of Sligo militia 12
April 1809 to 16 June 1855; M.P. co. Sligo 17 May 1831 to
Sept. 1841; created D.C.L. Oxford 13 June 1834; treasurer of
the ordnance Dec. 1834 to April 1835; treasurer of the Orange
association of Ireland, dissolved 1835; sergeant-at-arms of the
house of lords Sept. 1841 to death; one of the 6 comrs. for
executing the office of treasurer of the exchequer of Great
Britain 6 to 16 Sept. 1841. _d._ 28 Chester st. London 9 Dec.
1858. _Portraits of eminent conservatives_, _2nd series_ (1846)
_portrait xi_; _G.M. Feb. 1859 p._ 208.
PERCEVAL, ARTHUR PHILIP (youngest son of 2 baron Arden
1756–1840). _b._ at the Admiralty, London 22 Nov. 1799; educ.
Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, B.C.L. 1824; fellow of All
Soul’s coll. 1821–5; R. of East Horsley, Surrey 18 June 1824
to 1846; chaplain to the sovereign 7 March 1826 to death;
author of The Roman schism illustrated from the records of the
Catholic church 1836; The origin of church rates 1837; Sermons
preached chiefly at the chapel royal, St. James’s 1839; An
apology for the doctrine of apostolical succession 1839, 2
ed. 1841; A vindication of the principles of the authors of
the Tracts for the times 1841, of which he wrote Nos. 23, 35,
36, and perhaps 17; A collection of papers connected with the
theological movement of 1833, 1842, 2 ed. 1843; Results of an
ecclesiastical tour in Holland and Northern Germany 1846; Plain
lectures on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians 1846; Origines
Hibernicæ. By A. P. P. Dublin 1849; his name is attached to
upwards of 40 works. _d._ Little Bookham, Surrey 11 June 1853
after taking laudanum, verdict temporary insanity. _Liddon’s
Life of E. B. Pusey i_ 247, 264, _ii_ 178 (1893–4); _E.
Sheppard’s St. James’s Palace ii_ 341–2 (1894); _G.M. Aug. 1853
p._ 208.
PERCEVAL, CHARLES SPENCER (only son of succeeding). _b._ 11 Feb.
1829; educ. Trin. hall, Camb., LL.B. 1853, LL.D. 1858; fellow
of his college 1855–67; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1853; principal
secretary to lords chancellors Chelmsford and Cairns 1866–8;
secretary to comrs. in lunacy May 1872 to death; F.S.A. 12 Jany.
1860, director 1847–72, treasurer 1874 to death, catalogued the
collection of impressions and matrices of seals belonging to the
society; edited Catalogue of a collection of works on pageantry
bequeathed to the Society of antiquaries by F. W. Fairholt 1869;
and with W. S. Walford Three rolls of arms of the thirteenth
century 1864. _d._ 64 Eccleston sq. London 29 Jany. 1889. _bur._
Norwood cemet. 2 Feb. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xii_ 383–4
(1889); _Law Times 2 March 1889 p._ 340.
PERCEVAL, DUDLEY MONTAGUE (4 son of Spencer Perceval 1762–1812,
prime minister). _b._ 22 Oct. 1800; educ. Harrow Oct. 1811 to
Dec. 1815, and Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1822; student of Lincoln’s Inn
1823; clerk of the council at Cape of Good Hope 1825–8; first
clerk and deputy teller of the exchequer in London 1828–34,
when the tellerships were abolished; contested Finsbury 26
July 1837 and univ. of Oxford 20 Jany. 1852; wrote a series of
letters signed Philalethes in the Standard on the Irish church
temporalties bill; author of Quietus optabilissimus, or the
nature and necessity of real securities for the United church
with a settlement of the catholic question 1829; Remarks on the
character ascribed by colonel Napier, in the History of the war
in the Peninsula, to the rt. hon. S. Perceval 1835, 2 ed. 1835.
_d._ 16 Wilton st. London 2 Sept. 1856. _G.M. Nov. 1856 pp._
649–52.
PERCEVAL, FREDERICA. Attended the Mildmay conference Islington,
London 1874; the chief means of establishing a protestant
preacher at Spa, Belgium. _d._ Bruges, Belgium July 1875.
_Women’s Work iv_ 299–301 (1875).
PERCEVAL, SPENCER (brother of D. M. Perceval 1800–56). _b._ 57
Lincoln’s inn fields, London 11 Sept. 1795; educ. Trin. coll.
Camb., M.A. 1816; received a grant from parliament on the
assassination of his father 1812; one of the four tellers of
the exchequer by patent 15 Feb. 1813, office abolished 10 Oct.
1834; M.P. Ennis 1818–20; M.P. Newport, Isle of Wight 1827–31;
M.P. Tiverton 1831–2; attended Henry Drummond’s meetings at
Albury park 1826–30; called to be an apostle of the Irvingite
or Catholic apostolic church 18 Dec. 1833, representing the
tribe of Manasseh and taking Italy as his sphere; a compiler
of The Testimony which he delivered to William IV and all the
privy councillors 1836; with H. Drummond delivered a testimony
to the Pope July 1838; the rev. Hugh M’Neile addressed him in
“Letters to a Friend who has felt it his duty to secede from the
church of England” 1834; resided 31 Portman sq. London. _d._
of apoplexy, Weymouth 16 Sept. 1859. _Spencer Walpole’s Life
of S. Perceval i_ 26, _ii_ 303 (1874); _E. Miller’s History of
Irvingism i_ 41, 98, 139, 178, 180, 191, 285–6 (1878); _Weymouth
Journal 23 Sept. 1859 p._ 2.
PERCEVAL, SPENCER. _b._ 1817; ensign Coldstream guards 13 Jany.
1837, lieut. col. 2 July 1861 to 9 Nov. 1862; M.G. 9 Nov. 1862;
L.G. 25 Oct. 1871. _d._ 6 Down st. Piccadilly, London 5 July
1877.
PERCIVAL, CHARLES. _b._ England; lived in France 1789 to death;
rode at Sablonville for comte d’Artois, afterwards Charles X, in
the first race ever publicly run in France. _d._ Chantilly, near
Paris Feb. 1865.
PERCY, CHARLES GREATHEED BERTIE (youngest son of Algernon,
2 earl Beverley 1750–1830). _b._ Portman sq. London 4 March
1794; educ. Eton 1805–9, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A.
1818; M.P. Newport, Cornwall 1826–30; _m._ 20 March 1822 Anne
Caroline, heiress of Bertie Bertie Greatheed, with whom he
acquired the historic mansion Guy’s cliff, near Leamington, and
assumed by R.L. the surname of Greatheed Bertie 1 April 1826;
obtained precedence of a duke’s youngest son 16 March 1865.
_d._ Alnwick castle, at the residence of his nephew the duke of
Northumberland 11 Oct. 1870. _I.L.N. 22 Oct. 1870 p._ 435.
PERCY, SIR HENRY HUGH MANVERS (3 son of 5 duke of Northumberland
1778–1867). _b._ Burwood house, Cobham, Surrey 22 Aug. 1817;
educ. Eton 1832–5; ensign grenadier guards 1 July 1836,
major 19 June 1860 to 3 Oct. 1862; served during Canadian
insurrection 1838, and the Crimean war 1854–5; wounded at
battles of Alma and Inkerman; brigadier general in command of
the British-Italian legion in the Crimea 31 Aug. 1855; A.D.C.
to the queen 29 June 1855 to 10 Feb. 1865; V.C. 5 May 1857
for bravery at Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854; sent to New Brunswick in
command of first battalion of Grenadier guards Dec. 1861; col.
of 89 foot 28 May 1874 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; M.P. North
Northumberland 19 July 1865 to 11 Nov. 1868; K.C.B. 24 May 1873;
author of Explanation of the manœuvres of a brigade of infantry
1852; Caution for company and battalion drill 1855; _found
dead_ in his bed at 40 Eaton sq. London 3 Dec. 1877. _bur._
in Northumberland vault, Westminster abbey 7 Dec. _O’Byrne’s
Victoria Cross_ (1880) 31, 79.
PERCY, HUGH (brother of C. G. B. Percy 1794–1870). _b._ London
29 Jany. 1784, twin with Josceline Percy; educ. Trin. coll.
Camb. M.A. 1805, D.D. 1825; migrated to St. John’s coll. Camb.;
D.D. Oxf. 1834; R. of Bishopsbourne and Ivychurch, Kent 1809;
chancellor of Exeter 30 Jany. 1810 and prebendary 16 April 1810
to 1816; chancellor of Salisbury cathedral 21 Dec. 1811 to
death; prebendary of Canterbury 16 May 1816 to 1825; prebendary
of St. Paul’s 12 July 1816 to death; archdeacon of Canterbury 26
April 1822, dean 20 June 1825; bishop of Rochester 21 June 1827,
consecrated at Lambeth palace 15 July 1827; bishop of Carlisle
17 Sept. 1827 to death; established a Clergy aid society 1838
and a diocesan education society 1855; restored Rose castle the
episcopal residence and spent £40,000 of his own money on the
gardens and grounds. _d._ Rose castle, Carlisle 5 Feb. 1856.
_bur._ Dalston churchyard. _R. S. Ferguson’s Diocesan history of
Carlisle_ (1889) 2, 242; _G.M. April 1856 p._ 421.
PERCY, JOHN (3 son of Henry Percy, solicitor). _b._ Nottingham
23 March 1817; studied medicine in Paris and Edinb.; M.D. Edinb.
1838; physician to Queen’s hospital, Birmingham 1839; F.R.S. 22
April 1847, member of council 1857–9; F.G.S. 1851; lecturer on
metallurgy at Metropolitan school of science in London 1851,
which became the Royal school of mines where he was professor to
Dec. 1879; invented the silver process and discovered aluminium
bronze; lecturer on metallurgy to artillery officers at Woolwich
about 1864 to death; superintendent of ventilation of houses of
parliament 6 Feb. 1865; member of commission on application of
iron for defensive purposes 1861, and on Gibraltar shields 1867;
member of royal commissions on coal 1871 and on spontaneous
combustion of coal in ships 1875; awarded Bessemer medal of
the Iron and steel institute 1876, president 1885–6; wrote many
letters to The Times signed Y; author of An experimental enquiry
concerning the presence of alcohol in the ventricles of the
brain after poisoning by that liquid 1839; On the importance
of scientific knowledge to the practical metallurgist 1852; On
the metallurgical treatment and assaying of gold ores 1852, 2
ed. 1853; Metallurgy, the art of extracting metals from their
ores and adapting them to the purposes of manufacture, 4 vols.
1861–70, 2 ed. 1875; The manufacture of Russian sheet iron
1871; awarded Albert medal of Society of arts 18 June 1889.
_d._ 1 Gloucester crescent, Hyde park, London 19 June 1889, his
metallurgical specimens went to South Kensington museum, his
other collections were sold. _Temple Bar July 1890 pp._ 354–74;
_Proc. of Royal Soc. xlvi pp. xxxv–xl_ (1890); _Min. of proc.
of Instit. of C.E. xcix_ 343–6 (1890); _Nature 27 June 1889 p._
206; _Spon’s Industrial arts i_ 320 (1879).
PERCY, JOSCELINE (twin brother of Hugh Percy 1784–1856). _b._
London 29 Jany. 1784; entered navy Feb. 1797; captain 25 Sept.
1806; served at occupation of Madeira as captain of the Comus
1807; captain of the Nymph 1808, carried Junot from Portugal
to Rochelle; captain of the Hotspur 1810–5; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841;
commanded at the Cape of Good Hope 23 Nov. 1841 to 9 Aug. 1845;
V.A. 29 April 1851; commander-in-chief at Sheerness 23 June 1851
to 30 June 1854; M.P. Beeralston, Devonshire 1806–20; C.B. 26
Sept. 1831. _d._ at his country seat, near Rickmansworth, Herts.
19 Oct. 1856.
PERCY, JOSCELINE WILLIAM (2 son of 5 duke of Northumberland
1778–1867). _b._ Tunbridge Wells 17 July 1811; educ. Eton
and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1833; M.P. Launceston
1852–9; author of Romanism as it exists in Rome, exhibited in
inscriptions and documents 1847. _d._ Pembroke lodge, Sonning
hill, Berkshire 25 July 1881.
PERCY, SIDNEY RICHARD (6 son of Edward Williams, landscape
painter). _b._ about 1821; took the names of Sidney Richard
Percy in order to avoid confusion with other artists of the
name of Williams; exhibited 65 landscapes at the R.A., 48 at
B.I., and 67 at Suffolk st. gallery 1842–79; his works consisted
chiefly of English and Welsh scenery and especially of views
on the Thames; known as the founder of the ‘School of Barnes.’
_d._ Woodseat, Sutton, Surrey 13 April 1886, his pictures and
sketches were sold at Christie’s 27 Nov. 1886. _Athenæum i_ 592
(1886).
PERCY, WILLIAM HENRY (younger brother of Josceline Percy
1784–1856). _b._ 24 March 1788; entered navy 1 May 1801;
commander 2 May 1810, captain 21 March 1812; captain of the
Hermes 20 guns on coast of North America 4 April 1814, he set
his ship on fire to prevent her falling into the hands of the
Americans, as he had lost 50 men in an unsuccessful attack on
Fort Bowyer, Mobile 15 Sept. 1814; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846;
M.P. Stamford 1818–26; a comr. of excise 28 July 1828 to 6 Jany.
1849. _d._ at the residence of his brother the earl of Beverley
8 Portman sq. London 5 Oct. 1855.
PEREIRA, JONATHAN (son of an underwriter at Lloyd’s). _b._
Shoreditch, London 22 May 1804; educ. Aldersgate st. general
dispensary and St. Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A. 6 March 1823;
M.R.C.S. 1825, F.R.C.S. 1845; apothecary to the dispensary
1823–32, lecturer on chemistry 1826–8, lecturer on materia
medica 1828–41; F.L.S. 1828; professor of materia medica
in new medical school in Aldersgate st. 1832; lecturer on
chemistry at the London hospital 1833–51, assistant physician
1841–51, physician 1851 to death; F.R.S. 3 May 1838, member of
council 1843; examiner in materia medica to univ. of London
1839; L.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1845, curator of the museum to
death; M.D. Erlangen 1840; professor of materia medica to
Pharmaceutical society 1843–52; author of A translation of the
pharmacopæia of 1824, 1824; A selection of prescriptions for
students 1824, 18 ed. 1890; Manual for medical students 1826;
General table of atomic numbers 1827; The elements of materia
medica, 2 parts 1839–40, 6 ed. 1874; A treatise on food and diet
1843; Lectures on polarised light 1843, 2 ed. 1854. _d._ 47
Finsbury sq. London 21 Jany. 1853. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet.,
bust by McDowall executed for London hospital. _Pharmaceutical
Journal March 1853 p._ 409 _portrait_; _Proc. of Linnæan Soc.
ii_ 237–9 (1855); _J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy_ (1880)
224; _G.M. xxxix_ 320–2 (1853); _I.L.N. xxii_ 77, 78 (1853)
_portrait_.
PEREIRA, MENASSAH LOPEZ. _b._ 1776; entered Madras army 1796;
lieut. 11 Madras N.I. 1 Jany. 1800, major 6 April 1810 to 19
July 1817; lieut. col. 21 N.I. 19 July 1817 to 1820, and of 18
N.I. 1820–4; lieut. col. commandant 34 N.I. 1 May 1824 to 5 June
1829; col. of 16 N.I. 5 June 1829 to 29 June 1842, of 30 N.I. 29
June 1842 to 11 May 1848, and of 28 N.I. 11 May 1848 to death;
L.G. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ Brighton 20 April 1853.
PERFECT, ROBERT (only son of Wm. Perfect, M.D. of Wincanton,
Somerset). _b._ 1799; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A.
1825; founded East Somerset registration soc. 1841; M.P. Lewes
1847–52. _d._ Woolstone house, Castle Cary, Somerset 29 July
1875.
PERIGAL, ARTHUR (son of Arthur Perigal, historical painter
1784–1847). _b._ London Aug. 1816; a drawing-master in Edinburgh
then a landscape painter; travelled in Switzerland, Italy, and
Norway; A.R.S.A. 1841, R.S.A. 1868, treasurer 8 March 1880
to death; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 2 at B.I., and 1 at
Suffolk st. 1861–76; his picture ‘Moorland, near Kinlochee,
Rossshire,’ is in National gallery of Scotland. _d._ 7 Oxford
terrace, Edinburgh 5 June 1884. _bur._ in the Dean cemetery.
PERKINS, ANGIER MARCH (2 son of Jacob Perkins, civil engineer).
_b._ Newbury Port, Massachusetts 1799; came to England 1827;
assisted his father to perfect his method of engraving
bank-notes and of using steam under very high pressure;
introduced a method of warming buildings by means of hot water
circulating through small closed pipes, carried on a large
business with his son in Harpur st. and then at 43 Regent’s sq.
Gray’s inn road, London; took out a patent for the manufacture
of iron by the use of superheated steam 1843; took out a patent
for heating bakers’ ovens 1851, and another for railway axles
and boxes 1851; A.I.C.E. May 1840; author with G. W. Fitch of A
manual of geographical names 1852. _d._ 22 April 1881. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxvii_ 417–9 (1882).
PERKINS, FREDERICK. _b._ 1780; F.L.S. 13 March 1816; F.G.S.;
head of firm of Barclay, Perkins and co. brewers, Southwark,
London; collected books 1820–60, they were sold by Sotheby’s in
a 7 days sale for £8,500, July 1889; his Shakespeare collection,
47 vols. fetched £2,400. _d._ Chipstead place, Kent 10 Oct.
1860. _Quaritch’s Contributions to a Dictionary of English book
collectors_, _Part v_, _Feb. 1894_.
PERKINS, HENRY. _b._ 1778; partner in firm of Barclay, Perkins
and co. brewers, Southwark, London; began collecting books at
his residence Springfield, near Tooting, Surrey 1823; left his
library to his relative, Algernon Perkins of Hanworth park,
Middlesex, who _d._ 15 Nov. 1872 and whose personalty was sworn
under £250,000, 4 Jany. 1873; the books were sold by Gadsden,
Ellis and co. at Hanworth park 3–6 June 1873, the 865 lots
produced £26,000, being an average of more than £30 each, ten of
the volumes sold for £10,500, the Mazarin bible 2 vols. printed
on vellum sold for £3,400, Biblia sacra Latina 2 vols. 1462
sold for £780, and the manuscript of John Lydgate’s Siege of
Troy sold for £1,370. _d._ Dover 15 April 1855. _A dictionary of
English book collectors_, _part ii_, _September 1892_; _Athenæum
1 March 1873 pp._ 279–80, _14 June 1873 pp._ 762–3; _Chambers’s
Journal l_ 709 (1873).
PERKINS, JULIUS E. _b._ Stockbridge, Vermont, U.S. of America
1845; studied in Paris and in Italy; called himself Giulio
Perkins; came out as a singer in Italy 1868; a bass singer;
joined Mapleson opera co. 1874; acted Baldassare in La Favorita,
Drury Lane 11 April 1874, and Sarastro in Mozart’s Magic flute
4 July 1874; _m._ 1874 Marie Roze, soprano vocalist, she _m._
(2) 1877 Henry Mapleson. _d._ after a few days’ illness Queen’s
hotel, Manchester 25 Feb. 1875. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 28 Feb.
PERKINS, LOFTUS (son of Angier March Perkins 1799–1881). _b._
21 Coram st. London 8 May 1834; employed by his father to 1853
and 1854–62; an engineer in New York 1853–4; an engineer in
Hamburg and Berlin 1862–6, designing and executing installations
for warming buildings; partner with his father as engineers in
Francis st. now Seaford st., Gray’s inn road, London 1866–81;
took out many patents from 1859; experimented on the use of very
high pressure steam as a motive power and on the production of
artificial cold; invented the Arktos, a cold chamber suitable
for preserving food; M.I.M.E. 1861, M.I.C.E. 1881. _d._ 148
Abbey road, Kilburn, London 27 April 1891. _bur._ Kensal green
cemetery 1 May. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cv_ 311–4
(1891); _The Engineer 1 May 1891 p._ 349.
PERKINS, SHIRLEY FARMER STEELE (son of Samuel Steele Perkins
of Orton-on-the-Hill, Leics.) _b._ 17 April 1768; matric. from
Trin. coll. Oxf. 27 Oct. 1784; barrister L.I. 16 June 1792, went
Midland circuit; comr. of bankrupts for Birmingham 1794 to March
1847. _d._ Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham 15 Jany. 1852.
_G.M. June 1852 p._ 621.
PERKS, GEORGE, stage name of George William Reed. _b._ 1831;
equestrian performer; father of the Perks family equestrian
performers, performing at Agricultural hall, Christmas 1863–4.
_d._ Ernest villa, Hornsey park road, Hornsey 10 June 1893.
_bur._ New Southgate cemetery 17 June. _Illust. Sporting News
2 Jany. 1864 p._ 378, _20 Feb. 1864 p._ 441, _portrait of Mr.
Perks and Son_.
PERKS, GEORGE THOMAS. _b._ Madeley, Salop 29 Aug. 1819; educ.
Theological instit. Hoxton; Wesleyan methodist minister at
Edinburgh 1843–5, at Manchester 1850–6, at Bristol 1859–62, in
London 1862; visited Africa in connection with the missionaries;
sec. to the committee of privileges; sec. of Didsbury and
Richmond theological institutions; general sec. of Wesleyan
foreign mission 1867 to death; sec. of the conference 1872, and
president 30 July 1873; author of Sermons on standard questions
1882; while preaching taken ill in the pulpit 27 May and _d._
at residence of H. Wigfield, St. Leonard’s house, Rotherham 29
May 1877. _I.L.N. 16 Aug. 1873 p._ 149 _portrait_; _Times 30 May
1877 p._ 6; _Minutes of the conference 1877 pp._ 37–9.
PERRIER, SIR ANTHONY GEORGE (son of George Perrier, merchant).
_b._ Cork 1792; served in the commissariat department in
Peninsular war; British consul at Brest 7 Oct. 1824 to death;
knighted by patent 22 Nov. 1843; delegate to European sanitary
conference assembled at Paris 1851–2, and 25 Feb. 1859 to 25
April 1860; C.B. 6 Dec. 1859. _d._ Brest 8 July 1867. _bur._ in
the cemetery.
PERRIN, LOUIS (son of Jean Baptiste Perrin, teacher of French
in Dublin). _b._ Waterford 15 Feb. 1782; educ. diocesan school
Armagh and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1799, B.A. 1801; called
to Irish bar Jany. 1806; bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1832;
M.P. Dublin 6 May 1831, unseated Aug. 1831; M.P. Monaghan 24
Dec. 1832 to 1834; M.P. Cashel 14 Jany. 1835 to Aug. 1835; third
sergeant-at-law 7 Feb. 1832 to Feb. 1835, first sergeant-at-law
Feb. to April 1835; attorney general 29 April 1835 to 31 Aug.
1835; judge of court of king’s bench 31 Aug. 1835, retired
on a pension Feb. 1860; P.C. Ireland 1835. _d._ Knockdromin,
near Rush, co. Dublin 7 Dec. 1864. _bur._ Rush 10 Dec. _J. R.
O’Flanagan’s Irish bar_ (1879) 307–15; _G.M. Jany. 1865 pp._
123–4.
PERRING, JAMES ERNEST. _b._ London 1822; led the soprano chorus
at Her Majesty’s theatre about 1835; studied under sir Julius
Benedict; an intimate friend of Sims Reeves; went to U.S. of
America with Maria Piccolomini in 1858; a singer in oratorios;
composer of The fairy ring, comic ballad, London 1840; I’d be a
gipsy, ballad 1847; I’ll keep thee in remembrance 1854; Life’s
rosy morning, sacred song 1864; Beware, cavatina, New York 1864;
The home of my youth, duet 1870; The wishing gate 1867; his name
is attached to upwards of 30 pieces of music 1840–74. _d._ New
York, U.S. of America 12 Jany, 1889.