_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.
PERRING, JOHN SHAE. _b._ Boston, Lincs. 24 Jany. 1813; employed
as an engineer in London 1833; assistant engineer to Galloway
Bey, manager of public works for the viceroy of Egypt March
1836, became a member of the board of public works; helped to
make a survey of the pyramids at Gizeh Jany. to Aug. 1837;
explored and surveyed the pyramids at Abou Roash 1838–9; and
made a trigonometrical survey of the 53 miles of country near
the pyramids; engineering superintendent of the Llanelly railway
docks and harbour 1 March 1841 to 1844; resident engineer of the
East Lancashire railway 1846–59; engineer of the Ribblesdale
railway, constructed the joint lines from Wigan to Blackburn;
one of the engineers of the Manchester city railway; M.I.C.E.
6 Dec. 1853; M.I.M.E. 1856; author of On the engineering of
the ancient Egyptians 6 numbers 1835; The pyramids of Gizeh
from actual survey and admeasurement 1839; _d._ 104 King st.
Manchester 16 Jany. 1869. _R. W. H. H. Vyse’s Operations at the
pyramids of Gizeh in 1837 with a survey by J. S. Perring of the
pyramids of Abou Roash_ 3 _vols._ (1840–3) _portrait_; _C. C.
J. Bunsen’s Egypt’s place in universal history ii_ 28–9, 635–45
(1854); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx_ 455–6 (1870);
_Proc. of instit. of mining engineering_ (1878) 15.
PERRING, ROBERT. _b._ 1787; edited The Carlisle Patriot from
1815, and again from 1848 to 1868; editor and proprietor of
The Intelligencer at Leeds; sub-editor of the Morning Herald;
he encouraged Robert Anderson “The Cumberland bard” who in his
Poetical Works 2 vols. 1820 acknowledges the help given him vol.
i p. xxxiv. _d._ Carlisle 4 Oct. 1869, _bur._ Embleton 7 Oct.
_Newspaper Press iii_ 249 (1869).
PERROT, JULES JOSEPH. _b._ 1800; pupil of Auguste Vestris;
dancer and ballet master at Grand opera Paris 1828; the teacher
of Carlotta Grisi, whom he married and from whom he was
afterwards separated, she was _b._ Visinida 1821; one of the
most famous dancers of his day, well known at the King’s theatre
London; the inventor of the successful ballets Zingari at the
Renaissance 1841 La fille du Bandit 1857. _d._ Sept. 1892.
PERRY, ALFRED JOHN. _b._ 1825; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1853; C. of Plaistow Essex 1853–6; C. of Stanningfield, Suffolk
1856–8; C. of Lackford, Suffolk 1860–2; chaplain to hospital
Bury St. Edmunds 1862–9; C. of St. Augustine, Wisbech 1869 to
death; 3rd classical master of Royal Naval sch. New Cross;
author of The old year and the new 1864; A few plain words on
the real presence 1865. _d._ St. Augustine’s vicarage 10 July
1876.
PERRY, CHARLES (youngest son of John Perry of Moor hall, Essex,
proprietor of Blackwell dockyard, _d._ 1810). _b._ Hackney 17
Feb. 1807; educ. Harrow Feb. 1819 to June 1823, played in the
eleven against Eton; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1824, senior
wrangler, first Smith’s prizeman and seventh classic 1828; aided
in establishing the first eight oared boat on the Cam 1825;
B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, D.D. 1847; fellow of Trinity 1837–41,
tutor 1837–41; V. of St. Paul’s, Barnwell, Cambridge 1842–7;
bishop of Melbourne 25 June 1847 to May 1876, consecrated in
Westminster abbey 29 June 1847; reached Melbourne 23 Jany. 1848;
resided at Jolimont 1848–53 and in the palace of Bishop’s court
1853–74; obtained passing of the Church assembly act 1854;
left Victoria 26 Feb. 1874, resigned May 1876; select preacher
at Cambridge 1863–4; attended and addressed all the church
congresses 1874–88; prelate of the order of St. Michael and
St. George 1878 to death; canon of Llandaff 1878–89; author of
Five sermons preached before the university of Cambridge 1856;
Foundation truths, four sermons 1864; The Galatian lapse, six
lectures 1885. _d._ 32 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 2 Dec.