John Perry (shipbuilder)
John Perry (1743 – 7 November 1810) was the founder of the Blackwall Yard, where he built ships largely for the East India Company.
He was buried at St Matthias Old Church, Poplar.[1]
Ephraim Seehl, an apothecary and chemist, was married to his sister Sarah.[2][3]
In 1796 his wife, Elizabeth, died, and less than a month later his second daughter, Sarah, married George Green, whom Perry had taken as apprentice a dozen years previously. In 1798 Perry married Green's sister Mary. He retired to Moor Hall, near Harlow[4] and was appointed High Sheriff of Essex.
Perry's children by his two marriages included:
- John and Philip, who followed him into the family business
- Charles, first bishop of Melbourne, Australia
- Thomas, father of John Perry-Watlington, MP for South Essex
- Amelia (died 1874), managing committee for George Green's School[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Fuller, Tony (1998). Memorial Inscriptions at the East India Chapel, Poplar. Hornchurch: Armenians in India Press.
- ^ Hermione Hobhouse (General Editor) (1994). "Leamouth Road and Orchard Place: Individual wharves and sites". Survey of London: volumes 43 and 44: Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
{{cite web}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^ Porter, Stephen (1994). Poplar, Blackwall and The Isle of Dogs. p. 662.
- ^ Wright, Thomas (1834). The Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain: A Series of Views from Original Drawings, Accompanied by Historical, Topographical, Critical, and Biographical Notices ... Essex. C. Baynes. p. 91.
- ^ Green, Henry (1881). Chronicles of Blackwall Yard. Whitehead, Morris and Lowe. p. 112.
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