Modern English biography

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