Background
Perry was the only son of Review Isaac Perry, of Liverpool.
Perry was the only son of Review Isaac Perry, of Liverpool.
During the 1830s, he was a doctoral student of the University of Göttingen. Later a student of the Middle Temple, who matriculated 12 January 1847, Perry was called to the bar 31 January 1851. He made a living as a private tutor in Bonn.
Perry married in 1841 Hepzibah Elizabeth (died 1880), the second daughter of Samuel Shaen of Hatfield Peverel.
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.