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 E. 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.