Background
Edward Henry Perowne was the youngest son of three born to the Revd John Perowne and Eliza née Scott, Church Missionary Society missionaries at Burdwan in India.
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Edward Perowne
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He was educated at home and at Norwich before going on to Corpus Christi College Cambridge in 1846. Made a scholar the following year, he graduated Bachelor of Arts in Classics in 1850. He was ordained as a deacon in 1850 and a priest in 1851, becoming the curate at Maddermarket in Norfolk.
Perowne was made a Fellow of his old college Corpus Christi in 1858 eventually becoming Master in 1879.
He is buried in Grantchester.
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English