Frederick Perkins (MP)
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|name = Frederick Perkins
|honorific-suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MP}}
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|caption =
|office = Member of Parliament
for Southampton
|parliament =
|majority =
|term_start = 6 February 1874
|term_end = 6 April 1880
|alongside = Alfred Giles (1878–1880)
Russell Gurney (1874–1878)
|predecessor = Russell Gurney
Peter Merrick Hoare
|successor = Henry Lee
Charles Parker Butt
|birth_date = 2 June 1826
|birth_place = Southampton
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1902|11|08|1826|06|02}}
|death_place = Southampton
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|nationality = British
|party = Liberal
|parents = Richard Hopkins Perkins
|relations = Walter Perkins
|spouse = {{marriage|Isabella Croskey|5 January 1858}}
{{marriage|Evelina Abraham|22 December 1847|December 1848|end=d.}}
|children = Seven
}}
Sir Frederick Perkins (2 June 1826 – 8 November 1902){{Rayment-hc|s|3|date=January 2018}} was a British Liberal Party politician, brewer, and wine and spirit merchant.{{cite web|title=Perkins, Sir Frederick|url=http://sotonopedia.wikidot.com/page-browse:perkins-sir-frederick|website=Sotonopedia|access-date=20 January 2018}}
Political career
Perkins began his political career as a Liberal town councillor for Southampton's All Saints Ward in the 1850s, and shortly after that became Mayor of Southampton, a role he held on five occasions: in 1859, 1861, 1862, 1868, and 1869.{{cite web|title=List of Southampton Mayors: 1217 to date|url=https://www.southampton.gov.uk/images/list-of-current-mayors_tcm63-363508.pdf|website=Southampton City Council|access-date=21 January 2018|archive-date=21 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180121072420/https://www.southampton.gov.uk/images/list-of-current-mayors_tcm63-363508.pdf|url-status=dead}} During his mayoralty, he received the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) on their way to Osborne House after their wedding in 1863. In 1872, he was then made Sheriff of London and Middlesex, before being knighted in 1873.
He then entered Parliament as MP for Southampton in 1874, but stood down before the next election in 1880.{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|type=e-book}}
Perkins was a Justice of the peace and a prominent Freemason, and was elected a member of the Royal Geographical Society in recognition of the interest he took in the North Atlantic Telegraph Cable Expedition which started from Southampton.
Family
Perkins, the son of Richard Hopkins Perkins, married three times during his life. His first marriage to Evelina Abraham, the daughter of Abraham Abraham, of Brussels, was short-lived; they married in 1847, but she died on their first anniversary in 1848, but not before they had a child, Arthur Frederick.{{cite journal|last1=Preston|first1=Richard|title=Abraham Abraham: a forgotten politician of mid-nineteenth century Southampton|journal=Southampton Local History Forum|date=2014|issue=22|url=https://southamptonlocalhistorycentre.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/lhf-journal-22-spring-2014.pdf|access-date=21 January 2018}}{{cite book|last1=Foster|first1=Joseph|title=The baronetage and knightage|date=2013|publisher=Nichols and Sons|location=Michigan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uFE4AQAAMAAJ&q=richard+hopkins+perkins&pg=PA729|access-date=21 January 2018}}
He married again in 1858 to Isabella Bloomfield Croskey (d. 1885), daughter of Joseph Rodney Croskey, American Consul at Southampton. They had six children: Rodney Croskey (born 1859), Richard Harry (born 1864), Julian Tolmé (born 1867), Teresa Macombe, Evelina Daisy, and Amy Bloomfield.
His third marriage in the 1890s was to Mary Sherman, daughter of Robert Sherman, who succeeded him.Whitaker′s Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 1907
Perkins died at Southampton on 8 November 1902.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title= Obituaries - Sir Frederick Perkins |date=10 November 1902 |page=6 |issue=36921}}
References
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External links
- {{Hansard-contribs | sir-frederick-perkins | Sir Frederick Perkins }}
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Category:Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
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