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 1847. d. Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham 15 Jany. 1852. 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.