PERCY, Josceline (twin brother of Hugh Percy 1784–1856). b. London 29 Jany. 1784; entered navy Feb. 1797; captain 25 Sept. 1806; served at occupation of Madeira as captain of the Comus 1807; captain of the Nymph 1808, carried Junot from Portugal to Rochelle; captain of the Hotspur 1810–5; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; commanded at the Cape of Good Hope 23 Nov. 1841 to 9 Aug. 1845; V.A. 29 April 1851; commander-in-chief at Sheerness 23 June 1851 to 30 June 1854; M.P. Beeralston, Devonshire 1806–20; C.B. 26 Sept. 1831. d. at his country seat, near Rickmansworth, Herts. 19 Oct. 1856.
PERCY, Josceline William (2 son of 5 duke of Northumberland 1778–1867). b. Tunbridge Wells 17 July 1811; educ. Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1833; M.P. Launceston 1852–9; author of Romanism as it exists in Rome, exhibited in inscriptions and documents 1847. d. Pembroke lodge, Sonning hill, Berkshire 25 July 1881.
PERCY, Sidney Richard (6 son of Edward Williams, landscape painter). b. about 1821; took the names of Sidney Richard Percy in order to avoid confusion with other artists of the name of Williams; exhibited 65 landscapes at the R.A., 48 at B.I., and 67 at Suffolk st. gallery 1842–79; his works consisted chiefly of English and Welsh scenery and especially of views on the Thames; known as the founder of the ‘School of Barnes.’ d. Woodseat, Sutton, Surrey 13 April 1886, his pictures and sketches were sold at Christie’s 27 Nov. 1886. Athenæum i 592 (1886).
PERCY, William Henry (younger brother of Josceline Percy 1784–1856). b. 24 March 1788; entered navy 1 May 1801; commander 2 May 1810, captain 21 March 1812; captain of the Hermes 20 guns on coast of North America 4 April 1814, he set his ship on fire to prevent her falling into the hands of the Americans, as he had lost 50 men in an unsuccessful attack on Fort Bowyer, Mobile 15 Sept. 1814; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; M.P. Stamford 1818–26; a comr. of excise 28 July 1828 to 6 Jany. 1849. d. at the residence of his brother the earl of Beverley 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. 1860. Quaritch’s Contributions to a Dictionary of English book collectors, Part v, Feb. 1894.