The descent of FRANCHOY PIERON (1620c)
(1) FRANCHOY PIERON (var.Piron.Pierron), a weaver, brother poss of DAVID PIERON [David Pieron descendants], of a family formerly established (supp.) in the region of Lille and Menin (both places lying at that time in France); having issue:
(a) BALTASAR (Var.Balhazar, Balstarter, and Piron), birth recorded in the Walloon Church (St Mary the Less) at Norwich, 28-Dec-1645; elected "hommepolitique" (elder), 14-Jun-1705 - 12-Jun-1707; m., "sans annonce", 28-Nov-1672, in the Walloon Church (St Mary the Less) at Norwich, having issue:
(i) Marie (Piron), b. 13-Apr-1673 (+ WalloonChurch) in Norwich.
(ii) JEAN (Pieron), b. 4-Jul-1675 (+ WalloonChurch) in Norwich; (var.) JOHN PEROW , m. Mary; d.21-Mar-1724 (St Michael, Coslany) in Norwich; having issue:
a. Anne, + 26-Jan-1706, St Paul's, Norwich.
b. Amey, + 1709, St Paul's, Norwich.
(iii) Elizabeth (Piron), b.3-Mar-1677, (+ WalloonChurch) in Norwich.
(iv) JOSEPH (Pieron), b.7-Dec-1679 (+ WalloonChurch) in Norwich; prob JOSEPH PEROW (var.Peroe), m. 1704, at St Paul's, Norwich, Effa (var.Affa, ? Frances) Lee; having issue:
a. Effa, + 9-Dec-1705, at St Paul's, Norwich; (poss.) Effa EclP_Narrative.aspxParoon, m.1-Jan-1738, at St George, Colgate, Norwich, William Durriall ("both of this parish").
b. Sarah, + 6-Feb-1706, at St Paul's, Norwich.
c. JOSEPH, + 5-Mar-1710, at St Paul's, Norwich(Entry in Register reads "son of Joseph and Frances."); (poss.) JOSEPH PEROWNE, m. Sarah --?-- (poss. Sarah Parowne, wife of Joseph Parowne, bd., 1734, at St Paul's); d.1776 (bd.29-Nov-1776 St Paul's) in Norwich.
d. BENJAMIN, + 1-Mar-1712, at St Paul's, Norwich; (prob.) BENJAMIN PEROON, twister, listed in the Electoral Roll of the Parish of St Clement, Norwich, 1768.
(b) Elizabeth (Pieron), baptism recorded in the WalloonChurch at Norwich, 20-Jun-1652.
(c) Susenne (Piren), baptism recorded in the WalloonChurch at Norwich, 15-Ocr-1654. Poss? d.1729 Susannah PIEROW bd. 19-Nov-1729 at St Augustine;s, in Norwich.
(d) Jeane (Pierron), baptism recorded in the WalloonChurch at Norwich, 23-Nov-1656.
(e) Ester (Pieron), baptism recorded in the WalloonChurch at Norwich, 16-Nov-1660.
(f) JACOB (Pieron), baptism recorded in, the WalloonChurch at Norwich, 9-Apr-1665. Pos? d.1724. bd. St Augustines 26-Mar-1724. (There is a record of the burial of a Jacob Pierow at St Augustines on 26-Mar-1724). Whilst there are no recrdsof any marriage there is a possibility of a son with a father Jacob Perowne as translated from parish register at St Augustines; listed below
(i)? Daved Perowne, + 10-Dec-1693 at St Augustines in Norwich.
(g) JACQUE, + 13-Feb-1670, of whom presently.
(2) JACQUE PIERON, baptism recorded, 13-Feb-1670, in the WalloonChurch (St Mary the Less) at Norwich; pres. JAMES PEROW, weaver: m.Hannah having issue:
(a) BENJAMIN (Peronne), b.1695c; cordwainer, apprenticed to Samuel Ellis, of Norwich; admitted Freeman of the City of Norwich, 3-May-1736.
(b) JAMES (Peronne), b.1700c, Of whom presently.
(c) JOHN (Perow), +8-Jan-1701, from whom are descended the Perownes of Great Snoring, Norfolk
(d) Ester, +14-Mar-1714, at St Michael, Coslany, Norwich.
(e) Mary, b.1715; d.1789, in Duke's Palace Workhouse; bd. 26-Apr-1789, at St Martin@Oak, Norwich. ("Mary of the Workhouse")
(3) JAMES PERONNE, b.1700c; pres. JAMES PAROON, m.31-May-1731, at St George; Colgate, Norwich, Frances Bumsted Var. Bumstead), "both of this parish"; having issue:
(a) WILLIAM (Peroon), + 14-Aug-1734, at St George, Colgate, Norwich, pres. WILLIAM PEROWN, m.6-May-1755, at St Martin@Oak, Norwich, Ann Newman, "both of this parish";having issue:
(i) WILLIAM, + 13-Dec-1761, at St Martin@Palace, Norwich; pres. WILLIAM PEROWN, m.11-Nov-1787, at St Lawrence, Norwich, Elizabeth Marshall; possibly. William Perowne, "formerly an actor in the Phoenix Company", d. October, 1823, in London, aged 62; having issue:
a. WILLIAM MARSHALL (Perowne), + 27-Dec-1787, at St Mary, Coslany, Norwich. bd. 5-May-1793 All Saints, Norwich
b. THOMAS Perown, +23-Jul-1790, at All Saints, Norwich d.1811 bd. 8-May-1811. All Saints m. ? Record states that the burial of a Thmas Perowne a 20 year old married man, so he may possibly have had offspring
(ii) MARTIN, + 2-Sep-1767, at St Paul's, Norwich; d.inf.27-Aug-1772 and bd.atSt Martin@Palace, Norwich.
(b) Mary (I), + 20-Mar-1736, at St Martin@Oak, Norwich;Thereis a record ofa burial of a Mary Perowne on 12-Nov-1737 at St Augustine's
(c) Ann, + 13-Ocr-1738, at St Martin@Oak, Norwich; m.24-Sep-1764, Thomas Boullt, of the same parish, in St Luke's Chapel, Cathedral Precinct, Norwich.
(d) JAMES (Paroon), + 15-Jan-1740, 0f whom presently.
(e) JOHN (Paroon), + 15-Feb-1742, at St Martin@Oak, Norwich; pres. JOHN PEROWN, m.Elizabeth --?--, having issue:
(i) Maria, b.1769 (+ 15-Ocr-1769, St Martin@Oak) in Norwich.
(f) FRANCIS.(Paroon), + 4-Nov-1744, at St Martin@Oak, Norwich; pres. FRANCIS PEROWN, m. Martha , having issue:
(i) FRANCIS, b.1781 (+ 26-Aug-1781, St Martin@Oak) in Norwich.
(g) Mary (II), + 28-Dec-1746, at St Martin@Oak, Norwich; d. inf. - see (j) below.
(h) Frances, + 21-Mar-1748, at St Martin@Oak, Norwich.
(j) Mary (III) + 23-Jan-1753, at St Martin@Oak, Norwich; m. 19-Oct-1772 James Spalding., in St Luke's Chapel, Cathedral Precinct, Norwich.
(4) JAMES PAROON (Perown), b.1740 at 15, Coslany Street, Norwich (+ 15-Jan-1740, at St Martin@Oak); cloth-maker; m. 30-Ocr-1763, at St Mary in Marsh (St Luke's Chapel "in the precinct of the Cathedral") Norwich, Sarah Frances Plumsted (Var.Plumstead), of Coltishall (Cadet of Great Plumstead, Norfolk); and had issue:
(a) JAMES (Perown), + 2-Aug-1764, 0f whom presently.
(b) THOMAS, b.1771 - see Sowels Descent.
(c) Sarah, + 27-Mar-1774, at St Martin@Palace, Norwich; d.inf. 28-Aug-1776 bd. at St Martin@Palace.
(d) SAMUEL, b.1777 - see Samuels Descent.
(e) Sarah Frances, b.1779 (+ St Lawrence) in Norwich; prob. Sarah Perowne, m.8-Dec-1811, at St Giles, Norwich, Edward Dennis ("both of this parish).
(f) Rebecca (Prowen) + 24-Jul-1784, at St Giles (elsewhere St Michael, Coslany), Norwich.
(g) JEREMIAH + 27-Jun-1786 at St Lawrence, Norwich; d. inf. 17-Apr-1787; bd. St Martin@Palace, Norwich.
(h) JOSEPH, b.1788 - see Joseph's Descent.
(5) JAMES PEROWN (PEROWNE), + 2-Aug-1764, at St Michael, Coslany, Norwich cloth-maker at 15, Coslany Street and later at 12, Pitt Street, Norwich; m.3-Dec-1786, at the Parish Church, Lakenham, Norwich, Mary Ann Hills (var. Hill), an orphan, by repute "a very clever lady" (+ 22: iv:1764, at Maidstone), daughter of John Hills, supp. a Master Mariner, of Maidstone, Kent, and Elizabeth his wife. John Hills (b.4-Jul-1740) son of John (d.11-May-1775) and Elizabeth (d.l9-Dec-l766) Hills; m., at Maidstone, (alternatively) a) 12-Jun-1759, his cousin Elizabeth Hills (b.26-May-1759), daughter of Thomas and Sarah Hills, or b) 22-Nov-1761, Elizabeth Dawson (b.2-Apr- 1743 Daughter of Thomas and Mary Dawson.19 He is reputed to have been a merchant adventurer in the China trade, sailing his own vessel, the "Harry Holmes", with which he was lost at sea prior to his daughter's marriage in 1786.(Recollections of Elizabeth Bunn (ne Perowne) communicated by Miss Helen Griffiths - see (5)(a)(iii) below. "Sometimes Mrs B. called him Captain Hills and at other times Captain Holmes.") The earliest Registers at Lloyds (1764 -1785) contain no record of a ship named "Harry Holmes". (letter.dated20th February, 1924). The General Register & Record Office of Shipping and Seamen, Tower Hill, London, whose books open only in 1786, have been unable to trace either the ship or its master, and conclude : "It is improbable that the Registrars of Shipping at King's Lynn, Yarmouth or Lowestoft could assist in this matter" (letters d/ 16th and 28th February, 1924). At Rochester, Kent, the Water Bailiff's Accounts, which listed all vessels paying toll on entering the port, have been searched without success over the period 1760-1780. Unfortunately, there is a gap in these records from 1781-1814 (letters d/15th March, 1973, from the Medway Ports Authority, and d/May, 1973, from the City Librarian, Rochester. It is not clear how Mary Ann Hills came to be in Norwich.20 In the recollection of Elizabeth Bunn, JAMES PEROWN "first saw her one Sunday as he was coming out of Church, near to the Gate of the City of Norwich. Divine Service being over, they were just opening the Gate for the post-chaise with Miss Mary in it to pass through. A few days (?) after, they were married and Mr P. took her to his father's home which was not then in Norwich" (letter d/9th February, 1924, from Helen Griffiths). The reference to the father's home being "not then in Norwich" is confusing; an hypothesis that he may have been working in Wymondham has been followed without success.21 From a Directory dated 1783, it appears that the family resided at 15, Coslany Street in Norwich and had works at 12 Pitt Street, where JAMES PEROWN was domiciled when he died in 1827 and was buried 23-Mar-1827 at St Giles. His widow, Mary Ann Perown, subsequently (Census 1851) resided at 174, Bear & Staff Yard, Norwich, and died there 2l-Apr-1858; (Rebecca Whitlam (dau. g below) present at death leaving issue:
(a)Sarah Hills (Perown), + 7-Ocr-1787, at St George, Colgate, Norwich; seamstress; m. 13-Feb-1814, at St Helen's, Norwich, James Record, widower, mill-owner in Oak Street, Norwich.(Thomas Perown and Thomas Bailey witness at marriage) James Record was a Quaker and a well-to-do owner of both wind- and water-mills, which he abandoned in favour of steam-power when he built the New Mills in Oak Street circa 1830. His water-mill at Heigham stood in the centre of the River Wensum, on the site of the new bridge opened in 1923. He did not live long to reap the benefit of his enterprise, dying after a long illness in 1839/40. After her husband's death, Sarah Hills Record went to live with her mother (Census 1851) until the latter's death in 1858, and thereafter lodged with her brother James Joseph Perowne - (5)(c) below - at 22, Calvert Street, Norwich, where she died in 1870, leaving issue:
(i) Sarah Elizabeth (Record), b.1820; m.1840, Richard R.Pummell (b.1819) hot-presser, of Heigham.(2 daus., Sarah E., b.1842, and Elizabeth, b.1850)
(ii) James (Record), b.1822; blacksmith, of Heigham (Census 1851); d.s.p.
(iii) Elizabeth (Record), b.1831, at Newton, Norfolk; milliner; m.1854, at St Mary, Lewisham, Kent, Frederick Richard Bunn, speculating builder, of London and (later) of Ivy Bank, Ranelagh Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk (d.26-Mar-1899 s.p.; bd.in the churchyard, Old Felixstowe); d.9-Nov-1922 intestate. On the sworn affidavit of her tenant and companion Helen Griffiths, her wish: "When I am gone get the property to my own people; remember, my people are called Perowne, no other name. Be sure you do not forget" was the cause of a protracted legal process and generated a resurgence of interest in the pedigees. This accounts for a voluminous correspondence on the files between 1922 and 1925, when the Chancery Master at last assigned the Estate to John Thomas Woolrych Perowne (1863-1954) and his brothers and sister. The property was found to consist of Ivy Bank and three other small dwellings at Felixstowe (rentals about £30 p.a.each). In her house was discovered "in innumerable hidingplaces" gold amounting to over £700 and Treasury Notes to the value of £200. There also stood in her name small parcels of Shares in the St Louis Brewery and the West India & Panama Telegraph Company. (letter d/18th November, 1922, from A-Jan-Howard, Solicitor) All was realized and the proceeds distributed.
(b)Mary Ann, b, 10-Aug-1789 (+ 16-Aug-1789, St George, Colgate) in Norwich; d.ante 1805 - see (h) below.
(c)JAMES JOSEPH (PEROWNE), b.1791, at Shoreditch (Census 1851) (NB - The Parish Registers at Shoreditch 1787-1791; St Matthew, Bethnal Green 1785-1798; Christchurch, Spitalfields; Whitechapel 1784-1794 Aldgate 1791-1796; and St Botolph, Bishopsgate 1782-1794, do not record the baptism of James Joseph Perowne); manufacturer of bolting-cloth and other textiles. James Joseph carried on his father's trade of cloth-making in Pitt Street, Norwich, and built up a substantial business there under his own name. In "White's Directory, 1845 (Norwich)", p.199, we find under the heading 'Manufacturers (silk and worsted)' the following: "Perowne.James Joseph., (bolting-cloths), Tooley Street (Pitt Street)" In 1859, "Roger's Norwich Directory" gives James Joseph Perowne as "Manufacturer, l, William Street", and Whi.te (1864) shows: "Perowne.James Joseph, bolting-cloth mfr., Colgate Street; house, 1 William Street"
Arthur Michael Samuel, first Lord Mancroft was reminded of "an hereditary friendship. We Samuels were millers in Norwich; you were weavers and made all our bolting-cloths" (letter dated 25th February, 1973, from Stewart Perowne). In l865 the name disappears from the Directories and we do not know what became of this hitherto flourishing concern. James Joseph himself was then 73 years old and without a son to carry on his business; his grandson, John James Bunn, was 14 years old and it seems probable that the 'manufactory' continued under a different ownership and a new name. The Pitt Street premises were, in 1923, occupied by a leather factory, and 15, Coslany Street, by Bullard's, the brewers.
JAMES JOSEPH PEROWNE
- m.1) 2-Dec-1824, at St Michael, Coslany, Norwich, Mary Ann Bee (d.1831c, possibly in childbirth of second born JAMES JOSEPH who also died)
- m.2), as a widower, 25-Dec-1832, at St George, Tombland, Norwich, Bathsheba Cook (b.1802; d.g-Apr-1853; bd. Rosary Cemetery, Norwich), "of Spawle" (? Sporle, Norfolk); res.(Census 1851) at 80, William Street, Heigham, Norwich
- m-3) 24-Ocr-1854, Matilda Cooke (b.1809; d.14-Dec-1862 of a broken neck; bd. Rosary Cemetery, Norwich)22;res.(1870) at 22, Calvert Street (St George's), Norwich (from which address he wrote to "my neice" Elizabeth Bunn - see above); he d.27-Nov-1873, at the Terrace, St Paul's, Norwich
leaving issue by his first wife:
(i)Emily, b.1830;+6-Jan-1830 at St Mary, Coslany, m.28-Feb-1850, John Charles Bunn (no connection with (5)(a)(iii) above), surveyor and accountant, son of John Bunn, architect; d., of puerperal fever, 17-Jan-1855. (1 s., john James, b.1-Mar-1850 (+ St Lawrence, Norwich); dock labourer; d.21-Jun-1922)
(ii) JAMES JOSEPH PEROWNE (infant of St Mary, Coslany) + and bd.9-Jul-1831, at St Giles
(d)JOHN (PEROWNE), b.6-Ocr-1794, of whom presently.
(e)BARTHOLEMEW MATTHEW (var.Mathias), b.24-Feb-1797 (+ 5-Mar-1797, St Giles) in Norwich; d.1800; bd.17-Jul- 1800, St Giles.
(f)BARTHOLEMEW, b.2-Sep-1800 (+ 14-Sep-1800, St Giles) in Norwich; m. Charlotte --?--, having issue:
(i)ANTHONY, + 8-Feb-1824, at St Michael, Coslany, Norwich; pres.d.y.
(g)Rebecca, b.18-Ocr-1802; m.l-Sep-1823, Robert Whitlam (b. 1795, in.Norwich), tailor, res.(Census 1851) in the Parish of St Michael @ Thorn, Norwich. (4 s. and 3daus)
(h)Mary Ann, b.1-Mar-1805 (+ 24-Mar-1805, St Giles) in Norwich; prob. Mary Ann Perowne, m.12-Mar-1826, at St Saviour's, Norwich, George Henry Alexander.(James Perowne (? father) witness at marriage)(1 son William Coulsad b.10-Aug-18 + 15-Aug-1830 at St Michael at Thorn)
(j)JOSEPH, b.3-Feb-1807 (+ 13-Fsb-1807, St Giles) in Norwich; d.inf., bd.30-Ocr-1808, St Giles.
(6) JOHN PEROWNE, b.6-Ocr-1794 (+ 17-Ocr-1794, St Giles) in Norwich-, at 15 Coslany Street; apprentice and journeyman printer on the "Norwich Mercury"; Clerk in Holy Orders (read with Rev W.Sharpe, Yaxham, Norfolk, 1817; ordained Deacon in Gloucester Cathedral 6-Jan-1819, and Priest, 20-Jun-1819, at a private ordination by the Bishop of Gloucester (Rt Rev the Hon Henry Ryder23) in the Palace Chapel. In the record of his ordination as Deacon, described as "Missionary", and as a "Literate Person" in his ordination as Priest); pres. Curate at Tattershall, Lincs (? Tittleshall, Norfolk) June, 1819 - February, 1820 (No other record in Diocesan Registry, Gloucester - letter d/19th November, 1921), where he asked "permission for his banns to be called on August 15th, 1819, and subsequent Sundays". (letter dated 18th January, 1924, from Church Missionary Society, Salisbury Square, London EC4); m by licence, at St Lawrence, Norwich, 2-Nov-1819, Eliza Scott (b.11-Ocr- 1794; d.4-Mar-1880, at Loddon, Norwich; bd. at Redenhall, Norfolk), described as an orphan, of Heacham, Norfolk, where she had been brought up in the care of two Misses Glover. The provenance of Eliza Scott has been the subject of much fruitless research and conjecture. The Licence reads as follows: "The First Day of November 1819 On which day appeared personally John Perowne of the Parish of Saint Michael, Coslany in the City of Norwich and made oath, that he is of the age of twenty one years and upwards, and a bachelor and intends to marry with Eliza Scott of the Parish of St Lawrence in the said City of Norwich in which said last mentioned Parish she hath had her usual Abode for the space of four weeks past, aged twenty one Years and upwards, a Spinster not knowing or believing any lawful Let or Impediment, by reason of any Precontract, Consanguinuity, Affinity, or any other Cause whatsoever, to hinder the said intended Marriage: And that the said Marriage shall be solemnized in no other Parish Church than that of Saint Lawrence above mentioned.
John Perowne
The said John Perowne signed the above Affidavit, and was sworn to the Truth thereof, at Norwich the first Day of November 1819
before me
P.Whittingham, Surr."
The related entry in the Marriage Register at St Lawrence reads:
"John Perowne of St Michael Coslany and Eliza Scott of this Parish married in this church by licence 2:Nov:1819, by C.V.Smyth officiating minister. Witnesses John Green Winter & Christiane Glover, junior." The Rev John Perowne was appointed a CMS Missionar and assigned, 2-Feb-1820, to work at Benares, India24 "Mr and Mrs Perowne sailed in the "Ajax", a trading vessel, in February, 1820. The boat was considerably delayed at Madeira, at the Cape, and at Colombo. Near the latter place there was a merciful escape from shipwreck. They spent some time at Madras, where the "Ajax" turned homeward, and Mr & Mrs Perowne left Madras on a vessel named the "Moira" on 19th September, 1820, bound for Calcutta. They then began work at Burdwan; not Benares." (letter d/18th January, 1924, from Church Missionary Society) At Burdwan Eliza Perowne superintended various girls' schools, as is commemorated in the stained-glass window installed by their sons to their memory in HolyTrinityChurch, Cambridge, in which she is to be seen surrounded by Indian children. Ill-health compelled his resignation and they returned to England, arriving 5-Sep-1827, after completing seven and a halfyears in the service of the Society. Returning to Norwich, they resided for some years at "The Shrubbery" in St Stephen's Road, on the site later occupied by the Nurses Annexe to the GeneralHospital, and there carried on a school at which their "four celebrated sons" received their early education. Presently he was appointed Curate at St John, Maddermarket, and removed to "a very large house" in Surrey Street (Helen Griffiths ante). The "Norwich Mercury" for January 18th 1834 carried the following announcement: "Rev J.Perowne will resume Scholastic Duties on Thursday 23rd instant .... Number of pupils limited and selectall branches of sound Classical and General Education. Surrey Street"25 The following year he was inducted as Rector of St John, Maddermarket, in which post he remained for the next 28 years. In 1851 he was made MA by the Archbishop of Canterbury at LambethPalace. In the Electoral Roll of the Parish of St Stephen for 1852 he appears as "John Perowne - Occupier", which establishes that he did not own the Surrey Street property. Circa 1853, he published a pamhlet entitled "The Divine and Perpetual Obligation of the Observance of the Sabbath"; from 1862- 1880 he was rector of Carlton-with-Ashby, Norfolk
JOHN PEROWNE died, calling for his sister Rebecca, at the Master's Lodge, Corpus ChristiCollege, Cambridge, 26-Aug- 1882, aged 88, and was buried at Redenhall, leaving issue:.
Portraits;
- Oils, by an unknown artist at Cambridge ca 1851, in possession of Major-General L, E.C.M.Perowne.
- Litho., by T.P.Downes Esq.(BenIn George imp., 47 Hatton Garden; published by W.Boswell, Norwich) Orig.pencildrawing.in possession of John.Perowne Esq. T.P.Downes also made a number of companion drawings.of Eliza Perowne.
(a)JOHN JAMES STEWART b.3-Mar-1823, of whom presently.
(b)THOMAS THOMASON, b.16-Apr-1824, at Burdwan, India (baptism entered at St John, Maddermarket, Norwich, 1833); Educ.Norwich Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Adm.27-Jun-1843;Wrangler 1847; Tyrwhitt's Hebrew Scholar 1850; Norrison Prizeman 1854; BA 1847, MA 1850, Fellow 1852, BD 1858); Clerk in Holy Orders (D & P 1848, Ely); Curate of St Michael, Cambridge 1848-1853; of Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge 1862-1867; Rector of Stalbridge, Dorset 1867-1874. Rector of Redenhall with Harleston, Norfolk 1874-1913; Archdeacon of Norwich 1878-1910; Author of "Essential Coherence of the Old and NewTestaments" (1851)-"Memoir of Rev T. G. Ragland (1861)", Joint Editor of "Archbishop Parker's Life and Correspondence" (1853), and of the Book of Proverbs, Obadia, Jonah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi in the"Cambridge Bible for Schools" (1890); m.1) 1:viii; 1867, Mary Gillespie (b.I844 d.1872-Q2), daughter of Dr Andrew Wood, of Edinburgh; m.2) 1876-Q3, Hester Sancroft Holmes (b.30-Dec-1843; d.17-Apr-1891) dau. of William Sancroft Holmes, of Gawdy Hall, Norfolk (see "Burke's Landed Gentry"); d.6-May-1913; bd.atRedenhall, Norfolk; leaving issue by his first wife:
(i) THOMAS JOHN, b.23-Aug-1868, at Stalbridge, Dorset; Educ.Haileybury and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Adm.1886 BA 1889, MA 1893); Clerk in Holy Orders (D.1892; P.1895, Norwich); Curate of St Margaret with St Peter, Lowestoft, 1892-1902; Holy Trinity, Brompton, 1902-1904;of Kelsale w/ Carlton, 1904-1905;(Pte Secretary to Bishop of Norwich, 1906-1910); Curate of New Catton, 1905-1913; Vicar of Hindringham, 1913-1922; Rector of Starston, 1922-1945; Rural Dean of Redenhall, 1927, and Hon.Canon of Norwich, 1929-1937;Archdeacon of Norwich, 1937-1954; m.1-Sep-1914, Joan Evelyn (b. 19-Aug-1884; d.8-Jul-1972), daughter of Lt. Col. Henry Tyrwhitt Stanisforth Patteson, of Beeston St Andrew, King's Lynn (see "Burke's Landed Gentry"); latterly of Old Hall, Framingham Earl, Norwich; d.25-Aug-1954;bd. Framingham;leaving issue:
a. Bethia, b.10-Sep-1917; m.11-Ocr-1947, Kenneth Graham Johnson (b.9-Feb-1916), solicitor, Of Broome House, Church Street, Broadway, Worcs.; having issue:
i. Rachel, b. 19-Ocr-1949; m. 29-Dec-1973, Robert Edward Adams, Treasury Official(b. 18-Feb-1941), of 17 Jenson Way SE19 20P
ii. Ann b. 19-Jun-1952; m 18-Nov-1972, Robert Francis Szembek, farmer (b. 22-Ocr-1947), of Pinnacle Farm Thorndon Cross, Okehampton, Devon
b. Jean, b.10-Apr-1920; m.14-May-1947, Richard Rumbold Crooks, Royal Engineers (b.2-Apr-1919; .ret., Colonel, 1971), son of Frederick Crooks; The Generals , Penalt, Mon. having issue:
i. Richard Hugh, b. 15-Mar-1949; farmer of Parmaur, Talley, Llandeilo, Camarthens;
m. 15-Jan-1972 Diana Dicker, of Moretonhampstead, Devon.
ii. Peter James b. 26-Nov-1951
iii. Christopher John b. 19-Nov-1953
iv. Nigel Thomas b. 2-Mar-1960
(ii)Mary Jane Eliza, b.1869-Q4; d.unm., at Bungay, Suffolk, 30-Apr-1955; bd.atRedenhall.
(c) EDWARD HENRY, b.8-Jan-1826, at Burdwan, India (baptism entered at St John, Maddermarket, Norwich, 1833); Educ.Norwich Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Adm.25-Apr-1846; Porson Prize 1848; Senior Classic 1850; BA 1850, MA 1853, BD 1860, DD 1863); Clerk in Holy Orders (D.1850, P. 1851); Curate at St John, Maddermarket, Norwich, 18)0l~35l; iMA(Oxon) 1857; Fellow and Tutor, C.C.C.C., 1858-1879: Master, C.C.C.C., 1879-1900"; Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 1879-1881; JP(Cambridge) 1890; Hon Canon of Worcester, 1894; Chaplain-in-Ordinary to HM King Edward VI1, 1901; Author of ten works including "The Christian's Daily Life A Life of Faith" (1860), "Corporate-Responsibility",(1862), "The God Head of Jesus" (1866), "Commentary on Galatians in the Cambridge Bible for Schools" (1890) and "Savanarola" (l900); owned an orchard died unmarried after a long illness, at Cambridge, 5-Feb-1906; bd.atGrantchester. He was: "long one of the most conspicuous figures in the academic and social life of Cambridge" (DNB), where "in the nineties his cousin Ethel Willoughby acted as his hostess. He was a strict disciplinarian; the undergraduates did not like him, but the Quality did - he was such a good host" (letters in the College Library, C.C.C.C.and d/ 5th March, 1973, from Stewart Perowne). Of him the former are said to have chanted: "Now Teddy Perowne is gone to his own In a flaming and fiery chariot; And dines in state off a red-hot plate, Between Satan and Judas Iscariot."26
Portraits:
- Oils, by Rudolf Lehmann (1885) at Corpus ChristiCollege, Cambridge.
- Oils, by an unknown hand at Cambridge (ca. 1850) in posession of Major-general L.E.C.M.Perowne
(d)(WILLIAM) FREDERICK, b.3-Jun-1832, at the "Shrubbery", St Stephen's Road, Norwich (+ 16-Jun-1932 St John, Maddermarket); Educ.Norwich Grammar School and Jesus College Cambridge (BA 1855, MA 1858); a Member of the London Stock Exchange (1859-1913) and for thirty years Secretary to the Trustees and Managers (1878-1908)27;res.in London and, latterly, (with his companion Gwendoline Nicholas, and attended by his manservant Veale) at the Grand Hotel Folkestone, where he died intestate, 29-Dec-1913; bd. in the Public Cemetery at Folkestone.
(e) Eliza, b.30-Jun-1834, in Norwich;(+ 4-Jul-1934 St John, Maddermarket) d.inf. 4-Jul-1834.bd. 5-Jul-1834 St Giles, Norwich
(7) JAMES STEWART PEROWNE, b.3-Mar-1823, at Burdwan, Bengal. India.Baptism registered at St John's, Maddermarket, Norwich, 1833. Educ. Norwich Grammar School (Adm., as a free scholar, 30-Jul-1836, aged 13) and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Adm.3-Jul-1841; Bell University Scholar, 1842; BA 1845, MA 1848, Fellow 1849 (1851 in DNB), BD 1856 and DD 1873); Assistant Master at Cheam School, Surrey, 1845; Clerk in Holy Orders (D.1847; P.1848); Curate at Tunstead, Norwich, 1847-1849; Master at King Edward's School, Birmingham, 1849-1851; Asst. Tutor C.C.C.C., Lecturer at King's College, London, and Asst. Preacher at Lincoln's Inn, 1851-1861; Vice-Principal of St David's College, Lampeter, Wales, 1862-1872 (Presbytery of St David's, 1867-1872; Canon of Llandaff, 1869-1878; and Rector of Llandisilio, Montgomeryshire, 18?O-187l):
"Meanwhile his commentary on the Psalms (1864) made his name as an Old Testament scholar, and in 1870 he was chosen one of the Old Testament revision company.28 In 1868 he had become Hulsean lecturer, and in 1872 he returned to Cambridge. From 1873 to 1875 he held a fellowship at Trinity; he was Lady Margaret preacher in 1874, and Whitehall preacher from 1874 to 1876; in 1875 he succeeded Joseph Barber Lightfoot as Hulsean professor 1 and held office until 1878. For the same period (1875-1878) he was one of the honorary chaplains to Queen Victoria" (DNB, 2nd Supplement, Vol 111, 1912)
While at Lampeter he was offered the Deanery of Bangor, which raised an outcry of "Wales for the Welsh". Lord Salisbury accordingly advised him to refuse, substituting the appointment of Dean of Peterborough, 1878-1891. At Peterborough he was a popular preacher; the deep bell was tolled when the Dean was due to preach and the people flocked to hear him.(Note by Mabel Perowne F/1(7)(d). He was consecrated 103rd Bishop of Worcester in Westminster Abbey, 2-Feb-1891; resigned 1901. At HartleburyCastle:
"he filled the house with young people and caused the Chapel garden to blossom with roses of infinite variety. The first room on the North Wing - we now call it the Ball-Court - was known to Bishop Johnson as the 'granary'; in Bishop Perowne's time its remote position was permitted to excuse its appropriation to tobacco."
(Hartlebury_Castlell - E.H.Pearce, SPCK, London, 1926)
“(His) main work was the translation of a commentary on the Psalms (1864), of which a sixth edition appeared in 1886. His Hulsean lectures on Immortality were published in 1868. In acting as general editor of the “Cambridge Bible for Schools” (1877 &c), he directed a work of much more importance than its title suggests. He also edited
Thomas Rogers on the "Catholic Doctrine of the Church of England”
(for the Parker Society, 1854)
“Remains of ConnopThirlwall, Bishop of St David's” (1877)
“The Lettres, Literary and Theological of ConnopThirlWall”(1881)
“The Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools” (1881) (DNB, 2nd Supplement, Vol III,1912)
Among the more remarkable of his 27 publications is a slim pamphlet, produced at the age of 28, giving a correct Arabic text of a well-known Arabic work on Syntax, called AL-WRUMIIEH, together with an English translation.
Portraits:
1) Oils, by Hon John Collier, at Corpus ChristiCollege, Cambridge.
2) Another, by the same hand, in possession of John Perowne Esquire.
3) Oils, by Henry Weigall (1902), at HartleburyCastle.
4) Another, by the same hand, in possession of Mrs John Bolton (nee Perowne).
He m. 2-Jul-1862, at Rickmansworth, Herts, Anna Maria, Amelia Raikes Elizabeth Bentley Woolrych (b.30-Nov-1834; d.21-Jun-1916, at 12, Albert Road, London NW; bd. at Hartlebury; portrait, oils, anon., circa 1878, in possession of Major-General L.E.C.M.Perowne), third daughter of Mr Sergeant Humphrey William Woolrych, of Croxley House, Herts (see “Burkels Landed Gentry"29; after his retirement res. Southwick Park, Tewkesbury, where he d.6-Nov-1904; bd. (mont.) at Hartlebury30, leaving issue:
(a) JOHN THOMAS WOOLRYCH, b.1-Jun-1863, 0f whom presently.
(b) EDWARD STANLEY MOULD, b.16-Jul-1864, at Lampeter, Wales; solicitor; founder-member of the Cruising Association (1908); Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; m.22-Sep-1891, at Chesterton, Cambs, Ellen Dora (b.1864; d.5-Mar-1946), daughter of Rev James Hunter Gandy, Rector of Chesterton, Peterborough; d.23-Feb-1947, at Cedar Grange, Caterham (cremated and ashes dispersed); leaving issue:
i. (Dora) May Violet, b.21-Jul-1894; of The Hornet, Chichester, Sussex; d.unm.26-Aug-1969.
(c) CONNOP FIZRUOY STEWART, b.12-Feb-1866, at Lampeter, Wales; Educated at Haileybury; schoolmaster, traveller and farmer; sergeant in the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, South Africa, 1899-1900; Lieutenant RNVR and Captain, Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, 1914-1918; m.9-Aug-1905, at St Margaret's, Westminster, Florence Ada (d.l9-Feb-1945 at Ledbury, aged 71), daughter of Charles Moss, of Brighton, Sussex; d.15-Nov-1948 s.p.; bd.atRedenhall.
(d) ARTHUR WILLIAM THOMSON, b.13-Jun-1867, at Lampeter, Wales; Educ.Haileybury, King's College, Cambridge (Adm.1886; BA 1889; MA 1893; Hon DD 1920), and Ridley Hall (1892); Clerk in Holy Orders (D.1893; P.1894); Curate at Hartlebury 1893-1901; Vicar of Hallow, Worcs., 1901-1904, of St George, Edgbaston, 1904-1913 (Rural Dean 1906-1913; Hon Canon, Birmingham, 1912-1913), and of St Andrew, Plymouth, 1913-1920; Prebendary, Exeter Cathedral, 1917-1920; Archdeacon of Plymouth 1918-1920; Chaplain to HM The King 19181920; 1st Bishop of Bradford 1920-1931 (Consecrated 2-Feb-1920, in York Minster); 107th Bishop of Worcester, 1931-1941:
"EnglishChurch history is full of instances of fathers and sons who have been bishops and episcopal grandsons of episcopal grandfathers are probably quite numerous. But it is not often that a son has occupied the ‘cathedrat’ formerly adorned by his father. Now Dr Perowne, Bishop of Bradford, supplies an example by his translation to the See of Worcester which his father held from 1891-1901. In the intervening thirty years there have been three Bishops of Worcester. The first of them, Dr Gore, refused, on principle, to live at Hartlebury Castle, to the great discontent of the Diocese; Dr Yeatman-Biggs was a man of means who, when he became Bishop of Coventry, told his fellow Ecclesiastical Commissioners that he "might, perhaps, manage with eight housemaids"; Dr Pearce not only made ends meet at Hartlebury, but saved money out of his stipend. Of Dr Perowne's intentions nothing as yet is known. He may think, as the French once thought of the Rhine, that “ou le pere a passe, passerabienl’enfant”. (“Truth" - 28-Jan-1931)
ARTHUR PEROWNE occupied HartleburyCastle;
m.1) 4-Jun-1895, Helena Frances (b.1-May-1869, at Worcester; d. 22-Sep-1922, at Bradford; bd.atCalverleyChurch, Leeds), daughter of Henry Steward Oldnall Russell(see BLG), of Sion House, Worcs;
m. 2) 6-Apr-1926, at Wokingham, Berks,Mabel (b.24-May-188C, "), in Wales; d.29-Dec-190"7, at Haslemere, Surrey; ashes interred at Hartlebury), daughter of Thomas Henry Bailey MICE FSI of Marchwood, Beckenham, Kent; d.g-Apr-194A, at 'Gloucester; bd.atHartlebury;
having issue by his first wife:
(i). ARTHUR HUGH, b.9-May-1896; d.24-Jan-1897.
(ii). FRANCIS EDWARD, b.19-Jul-1898, at Hartlebury, Worcs; Educ.Haileybury and King's College, Cambridge (BA 1921); banker in Paraguay and Argentina; latterly of Little Garth, Walberswick, Suffolk; m.17-Aug-1928, Frances Isobel (b.8-May-1899; Educ. Roedean and Girton College, Cambridge (BA 1924; MA 1959); of Wycombe Abbey School, Bucks), res (1974) at 12 Alexandra Rd, Dorchester, Dorset, daughter of Rev William Henry Shields; and has issue:
a. Margaret Frances, b.27-May-1929.
b. Helena Margery, b.14-Feb-1932; m.10-Sep-1953,
Donald Cox Smith, Lieut-Commander RN, solicitor (1972); having issue
i. Lesley Rosamund, b. 1955
ii. Donald Perowne b. 1956
iii. Isobel, b.1959
iv. Andrew John, b. 1959
v. Having adopted Catherine, b. 1962
c. Rosamund Ann, b.23-May-1933; m.19-Apr-1958, at St
John's WoodChurch, Christopher John Lock, of
9, Birch Way, Harpenden, Herts.(3 s. 1 dau)
d. Isobel Lesley, b.20-Apr-1937; d.17-Feb-1938.
(iii). STEWART HENRY, b.17-Jun-1901, at Hallow Vicarage, Worcs; Educ.Haileybury, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (BA 1923; MA 1931), and Harvard University USA; HM Colonial Service 1927-1951 (Colonial Secretary, Barbados, 1947-1951); author (12 works) and orientalist; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; OBE, K.St J; of 44, Arminger Road, London W12; m.7-Ocr-1947, Freya Madeline (b.1893, in Paris, DBE), daughter of Robert Stark, sculptor, of Ford Park, Chagford, Devon.(s.p.)
(iv). LESLIE ARTHUR, b.18-Aug-1906, at St George's Vicarage, Edobaston, Birmingham; Educ.Haileybury; employed British Broadcasting Corporation and Army Broadcasting Service, 1934-1972; res.44, ArmingerRoad.London W12.
(e) Edith Charlotte Anne Eliza, b.14-Feb-1871, at Cambridge; d.unm.26-Dec-1964, at St Mary Abbot's Hospital, London, in her 94th year. (Ashes dispersed)
(8) JOHN THOMAS WOOLRYCH PEROWNE, b.1-Jun-1863, at St David's and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Adm.1882; BA 1885; MA 1889); schoolmaster, company director, traveller; soldier in the Volunteer and Territorial Forces in Northamptonshire, in London and in Devonshire; author of "Russian Hosts & English Guests in Central Asia”(1898), Politician and philanthropist, founder member of the Central Asian Society (now Royal Asiatic Society); Calptain(SR) in the Middlesex Regiment during the South African War, 1899-1900; Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Field Artillery, 1914-1918. (Hon.Col., 1928); private in the-Home Guard, 1940-1945:
“…he was a prominent member of the Order of
St John of Jerusalem and was from 1925-1933 Registrar of the Order. He was for many years a member of the committee of the Order's OpthalmicHospital in Jerusalem. From 1933 to 1946 he was Hospitaller of the Order. He was a member of the executive committee of the Joint War Organization of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John from 1939 to 1947, and chairman of the finance committee of the Joint Council of the Order of St John and British Red Cross Society from 1928 to 1944. He was a Knight of Justice of the Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem and was awarded the Service Medal of the Order .... In the general elections of January and December, 1910, he contested the South Molton Division of Devonshire as Unionist and Tariff Reform candidate, being defeated by the Radical member, Mr George Lambert. After an interruption in his political efforts occasioned by the 1914-1918 war, he was nominated to contest the Isle of Wight Division as Unionist in the general election of 1922. On this occasion the Unionist vote was split over a question of local nominations and the seat was lost to the Liberal candidate.” (“The Times" - 29th April, 1954) As with his father and the Deanery at Bangor (p.11), the opposition here resented the nomination of an outsider:
"Along the line the signal ran,
An Island seat for an Island man."
Portrait, oils, by Edward GaruanaDingli (1926), in possession of John Perowne Esquire;
JOHN THOMAS WOOLRYCH PEROWNE m.3-Nov-1896, at St George, Hanover Square, London, Edith Marione (b.17-Jun-1874, at Melford Lodge, Muswell Hill, London; d.l-Apr-1947, at St James' Court, Buckingham Gate, SW1; Dame Grand Gross of the Order of St John; portrait, oils, by Edward GaruanaDingli, in possession of John Perowne Esquire), daughter of Thomas Brookes Browne and Marion (nee Bousquet) Browne, of 38, Russell Square, London WC1.(for the Browne family pedigree see “Letters”, by Alice Maude Browne, published privately, October, 1911); d.27-Apr-1954, at 92, Redcliffe Gardens, London SW1, in his 91st year (ashes interred, with those of his wife, in the Crypt of St John's Church, Clerkenwell); leaving issue:
(a) (JOHN) VICTOR THOMAS WOOLRYCH TAIT, b.30-Jul-1897, of whom presently.
(b) Rosabelle Maude Ione Charlotte, b.15-Nov-1898, at 6, Bryanston Street, London Wl (+ in the Chapel Royal, St James); Junior Commander ATS, 1939-1945; O.St J.; res.26, Esmond Court, Thackeray Street, London W8.
(c) LANCELOT EDGAR CONNOP MERVYN, b.11-Jun-1902, at 66, Princes Gate, London SW (+ Holy Trinity, Brompton); Educ. Wellington College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Royal Engineers (Commissioned Royal Engineers in 1923; Major-General 1951; ret.1955); CB, CBE, K.St J., Star of Nepal (2nd Class);
Prior to the Second World War he was a searchlight specialist. During the war he served with the Commandos in France and then as commander of the 69th Anti-Aircraft Brigade from 1942, the 37th Anti-Aircraft Brigade in 1943 and then the Chindit-trained 23rd Infantry Brigade in India and Burma from later in 1943. He later claimed that, while stationed in Burma, he attached the severed, boiled head of a Japanese soldier to his knapsack to ward off snipers. As commander of the 23rd Brigade he fought a successful campaign in the Naga hills. He was present at the reoccupation of Malaya in 1945. After the war Perowne became commander of the Penang Sub-Area and of the 74th Indian Infantry Brigade in Malaya. He was appointed commander of the 72nd Indian Infantry Brigade in 1946, Commandant of the School of Combined Operations in 1947, and commander of the 151st Northumberland and Durham Light Infantry Brigade in 1949. He went on to be Commander of the British Military Mission to Greece in 1951 and General Officer Commanding the South Malaya District and 17th Gurkha Division and Major General commanding the Brigade of Gurkhas in 1952 before he retired in 1955
Chartered engineer (MIEE) and company director; author of regimental histories &c; of Milton Wood, Hurtmore, Godalming, Surrey (latterly Benfleet Hall, Cobham, Surrey).
Portrait, oils, by Anthony Harper (1963) at Perowne Barracks, Hong Kong.
He m.27-Sep-1927, at Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, London SW1, Gertrude Jenny Johanna Stein (b.12-Feb-1903, in Osnabruck, Hanover), only child of Gottfried Heinrich and Else Charlotte (nee Busse) Stein, of Cologne, Germany; having issue:
(i) Iris Else Marione Esther, bA-Mar-1929, at Blackheath, Kent (+ St Michael, Chester Square, London SW); architect (ARIBA); m.26-Nov-1965, at St Nicholas, Compton, Surrey, John Stacey Bolton (b. 12-Nov-1912, at RawalPindi, India), Colonel (Gurkha Rifles 1932-1961) ret.), DSO, s.of John Stacey (b. 8-Ocr-1885; d.8-May-1959) and Edith Anne (nee Haszeldine; b.9-Jul-1883; d.23-Aug-1958) Bolton; of 69, Priory Road, Kew Gardens, Richmond, Surrey.(s.p.)
(d) (CUTHBERT REGINALD TERENCE) CHRISTOPHER, b.5-May-1904, at 66, Prince's Gate, London SW (+ Holy Trinity, Brompton); EducSherborne and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (BA 1926; MA 1930), Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and Egerton Hall, Manchester; Clerk in Holy Orders (D.1928); P.1929); Curate at St Luke's, Manningham, 1928-1931, and at St Paul's, Onslow Square, London, 1931-1934; Chaplain Order of St John, 1932-1964 (Sub-Prelate 1964); Vicar of Standon, Herts, 1934-1947; Chaplain to the Forces (TA) 1933-1950 (TD and Clasp); Vicar of Lyonsdown, Barnet, Herts, 19471955; of West Ham, 1955-1961;and of All Saints, Hertford, 1961-1966; Hon Canon of St Albans, 1963-1967 (Canon Emeritus 1967); author of "A History of the Parish of Standon”(1967); of Little Bear, Stanon, Herts; d. 1-Jul-1973, in Hertford County Hospital (ashes interred in the Crypt of St John's Church, Clerkenwell), unm.
Portraits : 1) Oils, by John Goss (1964) at Corpus ChristiCollegeCambridge
2) another by the same hand (1970) at St John's Gate Clerkenwell.
(9) (JOHN) VICTOR THOMAS WOOLRYCH TAIT PEROWNE, b.30-Jul-1897, at the College, Worcester (+ 1-Sep-1897 in the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin at Worcester); Educ.Eton and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Adm.1919;BA 1920; MA 1926); Lieutenant in the Scots Guards, 1916-1918; HM Diplomatic Service (3rd Sec.1920; 2nd Sec.1923;lst Sec.1932; Counsellor, 1943-194?); Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See, 1947; KCMG, Knight.St John.; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; m.l-Jun-1933,
at St Margaret's, Westminster, Hon Agatha Violet Beaumont (b.26-Dec-1903), 0.St J, youngest daughter of lst Viscount Allendale (d.1923) and Lady Alexandrina Louisa Maud Vane Tempest, youngest daughter of 5th Marquess of Londonderry KP, of Bywell Hall, Stocksfield-on-Tyne, Northumberland ( see “Burkels Peerage"); d.8-Jan-1951, in Rome (bd. in the English Cemetery, Rome); having had issue:
(a) Rachel Penelope, b.10-May-1938; d.4-Feb-1940.
(b) JOHN FLORIAN CANNING, b.20-Aug-1942, of whom presently.
(10) JOHN FLORIAN CANNING PEROWNE, b.20-Aug-1942, in London (+ All Saints, Ennismore Gardens); Educ. Eton and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Adm.1961; BA 1964; MA 1905); solicitor (1968); of the Old Vicarage, Leavenheath, Colchester; m.12-Ocr-1968, in Salisbury Cathedral, Elizabeth Mary (b.28-Aug-1944, in Gloucester), daughter of Rev Shirley Beckett Freeman, Rector of Long Brady, Dorchester, Dorset latterly of 22 Pettitts Lane, Dry Drayton Cambs, and Clarinda (nee Turbutt) Freeman.