John Perry (1743 – 7 November 1810) was the founder of the

Blackwall Yard Blackwall Yard is a small body of water that used to be a shipyard on the River Thames in Blackwall, engaged in ship building and later ship repairs for over 350 years. The yard closed in 1987. History East India Company Blackwall was a sh ...

, where he built ships largely for the

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. He was buried at

St Matthias Old Church St Matthias Old Church is the modern name given to the Poplar Chapel built by the East India Company in 1654, in Poplar in the East End of London. The church is designated a Grade II* listed building. St Matthias Old Church is one of the ver ...

, Poplar.

Ephraim Seehl Ephraim Reinhold Seehl ( en, Ephraim Rinhold Seehl) (died after 1790) was an apothecary and chemist of German people, German background, born in Sweden. He was known as a manufacturer of green vitriol. Life He was the son of Captain Reinhold 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

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and was appointed

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. Perry's children by his two marriages included: *John and Philip, who followed him into the family business *

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, first bishop of Melbourne, Australia *Thomas, father of

John Perry-Watlington John Watlington Perry-Watlington (7 December 1823 – 24 February 1882), known as John Watlington Perry until 1848, was a British Conservative politician. Born in London in 1823 as John Watlington Perry, he was the only son of Thomas Perry and M ...

, MP for South Essex *Amelia (died 1874), managing committee for

George Green's School George Green's School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form, located in Cubitt Town on the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. History The school was founded in 1828 by George Green, a shipbuilder and shipw ...

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