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 1856. d. St. George’s house, Clapton high road, Upper Clapton 22 Dec. 1868.
PERRY, Thomas Walter. b. 1815; educ. Chichester college 1843–5; ordained 1845; C. of All Saints, Margaret st. London 1850–7; C. of Addington, Bucks. 1857–62; C. of St. Michael, Brighton 1862–72; V. of Ardleigh, Essex 1872 to death; hon. canon of St. Albans 1883 to death; member of commission on ritual 1867–70; edited Folkestone ritual case, the arguments before the judicial committee in Ridsdale v. Clifton 1878; Disputed ritual ornaments and usages 1886; author of Lawful church ornaments, the judgment in the case Westerton v. Liddell 1857; The Anglican authority for the presence of non-communicants during holy communion 1858; Some historical considerations relating to the declaration on kneeling 1863; Notes on the judgment in the appeal Hebbert v. Purchas 1877. d. Ardleigh vicarage 11 June 1891.
PERRY, Sir William (eld. son of James Perry). b. 1801; educ. Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1822; master of the horse to lord lieut. of Ireland 1835; consul at Panama 2 Sept. 1841; packet agent there for the Pacific 1842; consul general for Austrian coasts of Adriatic 15 June 1860, retired on a compensation allowance 1 April 1872; knighted by patent 27 June 1872; F.R.G.S.; resided at Venice 1860 to death. d. Venice 24 Aug. 1874. I.L.N. lv 236, 547 (1874).
PERRY, William. b. Tipton Park lane, Tipton, Staffs. 1819; a navvy in London 1835; a pugilist known as the Tipton Slasher from 1837; beat James Scunner 22 Nov. 1837; fought Charles Freeman, the American giant, near Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 14 Dec. 1842, 70 rounds in 84 minutes when darkness came on, fought him again in Cliffe marshes below Gravesend 20 Dec. 1842, 38 rounds in 39 minutes, when Perry fell without a blow, (Freeman was 6 feet 10½ inches high and weighed 18 stone, he died of consumption in Winchester hospital 18 Oct. 1845 aged 28 years and weighing only 10 stone); fought Tass Parker, £100 a side, 67 rounds in 95 minutes at Dartford marshes 19 Dec. 1843 when the police interfered; beat Tass Parker £100 a side, 133 rounds in 152 minutes at Horley 27 Feb. 1844; beat him again, £100 a side, 23 rounds in 27 minutes at Lindrick common, Yorks. 4 Aug. 1846; presented by his friends with a cup valued at 100 guineas 1847; beat Tom Paddock, £100 a side, 27 rounds in 42 minutes at Woking 17 Dec. 1850, when he claimed the championship as Bendigo the champion declined fighting again; fought Harry Broome for £200 a side and the championship, 15 rounds in 33 minutes at Mildenhall 29 Sept. 1851 when Broome won; claimed the championship again 1853 Harry Broome having retired from the ring; fought Tom Sayers for £200 a side and the champion’s belt, 10 rounds in 102 minutes, at the Isle of Grain in the Medway 16 June 1857 when Sayers won, this fight is described in Augustus Mayhew’s novel Paved with gold, 1858, pp. 182–92; sold refreshments at races and fairs in the Black Country; landlord of the Old leather bottle 48 Canal st. Wolverhampton about 1858–63. d. Wolverhampton 24 Dec. 1880. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii 157–205 portrait, 325–30, 392–9 (1881); John Hannan’s British boxing (1850) 26–9; Bell’s Life in London 1 Jany. 1881 p. 9.
PERSIANI, Fanny (2 dau. of Nicolas Tacchinardi, tenor and teacher of music, d. 1859). b. Rome 4 Oct. 1812; sang in her father’s private theatre near Florence 1822; m. at Florence 1830 P. G. Persiani; appeared in Fournier’s opera Francesca da Rimini at Florence 1832; in 1834 Donizetti wrote for her Lucia di Lammermoor; sang as Lucia in Naples 1835 and in Paris 12 Dec. 1837; first appeared in London at Her Majesty’s as Amina 1838; had a soprano voice of great range upwards, about 18 notes from B to F in alt.; from 1838 sang in London and Paris alternately for many years; joined the Covent Garden co. 1847; sang at concerts 1850 etc.; appeared at Drury Lane in Linda, Elvira, Zerlina, etc. 1858; taught music in Paris 1858 to death. d. Neuilly sur Seine, near Paris 3 May 1867. Grove’s Dict. of music ii 693–4 (1880); C. Heath’s Beauties of the opera (1845) 17 portrait; E. C. Clayton’s Queens of Song ii 257–73 (1863); I.L.N. ii 438 (1843) portrait; H. S. Edwards’s The prima donna ii 191–6 (1888).
PERSIANI, or Persiano Giuseppe. b. Recanati in the Papal States 1805; dramatic composer; went to Paris 1837; passed several years in Spain from 1838; composer of Piglia il mondo come viene, opera buffa Florence 1826; Gaston de Foix, an opera Venice 1828; Inès de Castro, an opera Naples 1835; L’orfana savojardo, an opera Madrid 1846; he joined in the cabal against Benjamin Lumley in 1846, because Lumley would not produce one of his operas at Her Majesty’s; with M. Galletti took Covent Garden on lease in 1847. d. Paris 14 Aug. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. ii 151 (1869); Fetis’ Biographie des Musiciens vii 3 (1864), ii 325 (1880); H. S. Edwards’ The Prima Donna ii 196–204 (1888).