Modern English biography

Cambridge, and a memorial in St. Paul’s cathedral, Melbourne. _G. Goodman’s Church in Victoria during the episcopate of bishop Perry_ (1892) _portrait_; _I.L.N. 12 Dec. 1861 p._ 758 _portrait_. PERRY, CHARLES THOMAS. _b._ Salisbury; a turf commissioner with a large business in connection with city of London 40 years; in Blink Bonny, Beadsman and Musjid’s years his settlings were very heavy; ruined by the failure of Overend, Gurney and co. 1866; trained and ran some horses under name of E. Hall; chairman of Victoria club, Wellington st. Strand many years. _d._ 23 Sept. 1890. PERRY, FREDERICK C. With his son sang and conducted at the King’s head, Knightsbridge, London, for five shillings a night; a writer of the following songs, The exhibition lodging house; I’d a splendid house in Concord crescent, music by William Wilson 1860; The perfect cure, Young love he plays some funny tricks, music by Jonathan Blewitt 1865; When these old clothes were new, eight years ago I looked a swell, music by Frederick French 1867; The charming young girl. In the arcade one evening, music by Thomas Fancourt 1868; Herr Von Clarinette’s my name, music by T. Fancourt 1873; To keep the peace 1876. NOTE.--He also wrote Daddy’s Knock, a parody on The Postman’s knock, We’ve taken Sebastopol in which Slap Bang occurs perhaps for the first time; The Guards of our land, written in honor of the return from the Crimea, set to music by Mr. Tully at the King’s head music hall. PERRY, GEORGE. _b._ Norwich 1793; educ. under Dr. John C. Beckwith; member of the cathedral choir; leader of the band at theatre royal, Norwich about 1818; his oratorio The death of Abel was first performed at a Hall concert in Norwich 1841, and repeated by the Sacred harmonic society London 1841 and 1845; his oratorio Elijah and the priests of Baal was first performed in Norwich 12 March 1819; musical director of the Haymarket theatre London 1822; his opera Morning, noon and night was produced at Haymarket 9 Sept. 1822; his oratorio The fall of Jerusalem was produced 1830; organist of Quebec chapel, Old Quebec st. London 1822–46, and of Trinity church, Gray’s Inn road 1846 to death; leader of the band of the Sacred harmonic society 1832–48, conductor 1848; composed Belshazzar’s feast, a sacred cantata 10 Feb. 1836, Blessed be the Lord thy God, a festival anthem for the queen’s accession 1837, and an oratorio Hezekiah 1847; his Thanksgiving anthem for the birth of the princess royal 1840 was performed with great success by Sacred harmonic society; wrote additional accompaniments to some of Handel’s works and for several of them made pianoforte scores. _d._ 4 Great Marylebone st. London 4 March 1862. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 11 March. _T. D. Eaton’s Musical criticism_ (1872) 197–289. PERRY, HENRY JAMES. _b._ 9 July 1800; educ. Jesus coll. Camb., fellow 1827–44; B.A. 1821 M.A. 1824; barrister L.I. 1 Feb. 1825; principal secretary to Lord chancellor Lyndhurst 1841–6; comr. in bankruptcy for Liverpool district 7 July 1846 to death; author with J. W. Knapp of Cases of controverted elections 1833. _d._ New Brighton near Liverpool 29 May 1869. _Law Journal iv_ 330 (1869). PERRY, JAMES. Entered Madras army 1805; lieut. 16 Madras N.I. 25 Feb. 1807, captain 28 Feb. 1820; major 31 N.I. 3 Jany. 1826, and lieut.-col. 13 July 1831 to 31 Oct. 1841; lieut.-col. of Second European regiment 31 Oct. 1841; brigadier at Jaulna 28 Dec. 1841 to 1843, at Billary 1843–44; col. of 31 light infantry 1843 to death; commanded Nagpore subsidiary force 12 April 1844 to 20 Sept. 1848; L.G. 6 Dec. 1856. _d._ 21 Bryanston sq., London, 17 March 1863. PERRY, JOHN GEORGE. _b._ 3 May 1802; educ. St. Bartholomew’s hospital, and a governor 1834 to death; F.R.C.S Eng. 1843; surgeon St. Marylebone infirmary many years; surgeon Great James st., Bedford row, London, retired 1843; surgeon to Foundling Hospital 1829–43, a governor 1834; hon. sec. Royal medical and chirurgical soc. 6 years and reporter at their meetings; a medical inspector of prisons 1843 to death; a visitor of Parkhurst prison for juvenile offenders and a commissioner of Millbank prison; F.R A.S., made observation with a 3½ inch telescope; took part in the Himalaya expedition and made some observations at Burgos. _d._ 12 Westbourne st., Hyde park gardens, London, Jany. 1870. _Medical Times 22 Jany. 1870 p._ 107; _Monthly Notices R. Astronom. soc. 10 Feb. 1871 p._ 102. PERRY, RICHARD DAVIS. _b._ 1848; educ. as a surgeon; ran through and spent all his means, very intemperate, allowed £130 a year by his relations; wrote several plays; author of In and out of fashion, a novel 3 vols. 1885; _shot himself_ at Phœnix coffee house 6 Praed st., Paddington, London, 6 Jany. 1892. PERRY, STEPHEN JOSEPH (son of Stephen Perry of Red Lion sq. London, steel-pen manufacturer). _b._ London 26 Aug. 1833; educ. Gifford hall 1843, and Douay college, France 1845–51; studied theology in the English college at Rome 1851–3; entered society of Jesus at Hodder house, near Stonyhurst 12 Nov. 1853; studied philosophy at Stonyhurst 1856–8; matric. at univ. of London 1858; professor of mathematics at Stonyhurst and director of the observatory 1860–3 and 1868–87; ordained 23 Sept. 1866; made magnetic surveys of western and eastern France 1868–9, and of Belgium 1871; F.R.A.S. 9 April 1869, sent by the society to San Antonio, near Cadiz to observe the total solar eclipse of 22 Dec. 1870; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; sent to Kerguelen island to observe the transit of Venus 8 Dec. 1874, and to Nos Vey a coral reef close to south-west coast of Madagascar 6 Dec. 1882; took part in the Royal society’s expedition to Carriacou in the West Indies for the solar eclipse of 19 Aug 1886; observed the eclipse of 19 Aug. 1887 at Pogost on the Volga; author of very numerous papers in Philos. Trans., Astronomical register, Nature, The Month, etc.; photographed the eclipsed sun at Salut Islands off Guiana 22 Dec. 1889. _d._ on board her majesty’s ship Comus 27 Dec. 1889. _bur._ Georgetown, Demerara. _Father Perry, the Jesuit astronomer, by A. L. Cortie, S.J. 2 ed._ (1890) _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xlviii pp. xii–xv_ (1890); _The Month lxviii_ 305–23, 474–88 (1890); _Nature xli_ 279–80, 301 (1890); _Sidereal messenger (Northfield, Minnesota) ix_ 197 (1890) _portrait_; _Tablet 11 Jany. 1890 p._ 55, _25 Jany. pp._ 128, 137; _I.L.N. 18 Jany. 1890 p._ 67 _portrait_. PERRY, SIR THOMAS ERSKINE (2 son of James Perry 1756–1821, proprietor and editor of the Morning Chronicle). _b._ Wandlebank house, Wimbledon 20 July 1806; educ. Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1829; student of Lincoln’s Inn 3 Feb. 1827 to 30 May 1832; studied at univ. of Munich 1829–31; honorary secretary to National political union of London 1831; founded the Parliamentary candidate society 21 March 1831; contested Chatham, but defeated after a six month’s contest 14 Dec. 1832, student of Inner Temple 2 June 1832, barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1834; lost his fortune by failure of a bank 1840; a judge of supreme court of Bombay 16 Jany. 1841, sworn in at Bombay 10 April 1841, chief justice 18 Sept. 1847, retired Nov. 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 11 Feb. 1841; president of Indian board of education 1842–52; a Perry professorship of law was established at Bombay with a sum of £5,000, subscribed by the natives as a testimonial to him; contested Liverpool 9 July 1853; M.P. Devonport 1854–9; member of council of India 8 Aug. 1859, resigned 1882, chairman of its judicial and legislative committee 1860–82; P.C. April 1882 but never sworn in; author with Sandford Nevile of Reports of cases relating to magistrates determined in the king’s bench, 2 parts 1837; Reports of cases argued in the king’s bench, 3 vols. 1837–9; author with Henry Davison of Reports of cases argued in the king’s bench 1838–41, 4 vols. 1839–42; author of Cases illustrative of oriental life decided in supreme court at Bombay 1853; A bird’s-eye view of India 1855; translated Savigny’s Treatise on possession 1848. _d._ 36 Eaton place, London 22 April 1882. _Biograph iii_ 129–37 (1880); _New monthly mag. cxvii_ 382–91 (1880) _portrait_; _Law Times lxxiii_ 34 (1882). PERRY, THOMAS WALTER. _b._ 1780; founded Perry’s Bankrupt and insolvent gazette at 76 Cornhill, London 1826, proprietor to