Background
PERKINS, Harry limes Son of late Major-General E. N. Perkins, Bengal Staff Corps.
PERKINS, Harry limes Son of late Major-General E. N. Perkins, Bengal Staff Corps.
Privately; Kings’ School, Rochester.
Clerk to Director of Public Works and Surveys, Trinidad, 1SS0-S1. Third Assistant Crown Surveyor, Crown Lands Department, British Guiana, 1881. 2nd, 18S4; 1st, 1889.
Made first ascent of Mountain Roraima in 1884 with East. F. im Tliurn.
Acting Crown Surveyor, 1890,1892- 1893. Commissioner for settlement of East Indian immigrants in Colony in lieu of return passages to India, 1895.
Acting Commissioner of Mines, 1895-1901. Acting Crown Surveyor in addition during 1890.
Commissioner to delimit boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela, 1900.
Senior Commissioner, January 1903. Completed delimitation, 1904. Surveyor-General British Honduras, 1905.
Member of the Executive Council, 1908.
Imperial Service Order (1904). Sometime member of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy. Assistant Commissioner Department of Lands and Mines, British Guiana.
Senior British Boundary Commissioner.
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Fellow of the Geological Society.
Spouse 1889, Josephine,daughter of George Monkliouse.