Background
Michael Perry was born in Beckenham, Kent on 8 March 1942.
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Michael Perry was born in Beckenham, Kent on 8 March 1942.
He was educated at Dulwich College and went on to study at University College London. Oak Hill Theological College, London. Ridley Hall, Cambridge.
And University of Southampton.
He was closely associated with Jubilate. lieutenant was during his student days at Oak Hill in 1964 that Perry wrote his best-known hymn, the Calypso Carol, the first line of which is "See him lying on a bed of straw". He moved to Bitterne, Southampton, Hampshire, where he was curate and then vicar.
During his time at Bitterne he was on the committees that produced the popular hymn books Psalm Praise (1973) and for Today"s Church (1982).
From 1981 to 1989 Perry served as Rector of Eversley, Hampshire. In 1982 he became Secretary of Jubilate, and was involved in editing most of their books
In addition, he worked as Chaplain and lecturer at the National Police Staff College, Bramshill. Perry"s last posting was as Vicar of Tonbridge in his native Kent from 1989 until 1996.
He was appointed Chairman of the Church Pastoral Aid Society in 1993, and again to the General Synod in 1994.
His contemporary, hymn-writer Chris Idle, paid tribute to Perry"s compositions, his constructive criticism of others" works, and his business acumen in "sorting out what had been a copyright jungle" (referring to critics who expected songwriters to make no charge since their work was "for the Lord"). He concluded that few people matched Perry"s influence on evangelical praise and worship over the 1970s to "90s.
