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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.