Walter Copland Perry (1814 – December 1911) was a noted British author and barrister-at-law.

Life

Perry was the only son of Rev. Isaac Perry, of Liverpool. During the 1830s, he was a doctoral student of the

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. Later a student of the

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, who matriculated 12 January 1847, Perry was called to the bar 31 January 1851. He made a living as a private tutor in

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Works

Perry published ''German University Education'' in 1845. As historian and

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, he published ''The Franks, From Their First Appearance in History to the Death of King Pepin'' (1857), ''The Women of Homer'', ''Sancta Paula; a Romance of the Fourth Century, A.D.'' (1902) and ''Sicily in fable, history, art, and song'' (1908).

Family

Perry married in 1841 Hepzibah Elizabeth (died 1880), the second daughter of Samuel Shaen of

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. They had five sons and one daughter. In 1889 he married, as his second wife, Evelyn Stopford (1858—?). Their son, Evelyn Copland Perry (1890 – 1914), a pioneer British aviator was killed on 16 August 1914 while serving with the Royal Flying Corps in France, making him the first British Army officer to die in France during World War I.

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