Modern English biography

_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.