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.
Ephraim Seehl, an apothecary and chemist, was married to his sister Sarah.
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 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
References
- 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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