Career
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Born in Stockport, Cheshire, Sam Perry began his education with a scholarship at the Stockport Grammar School but was forced to give up school at the age of ten when his father died, becoming a cotton spinner like his father. He became involved in the local co-operative movement with the Stockport Company-operative Society then Birkenhead and on the creation of the Company-operative Party in 1917 was appointed its first national secretary. Appointment as the senior official in the Party brought Perry to London with nine-year-old Fred.
The family lived on the co-operatively run Brentham Estate in Ealing, where Fred was able to use the tennis courts and cricket pitch.
Sam Perry unsuccessfully contested the 2-member Stockport constituency at a by-election in1920 and again at the subsequent 1922 general election. Perry continued as national secretary of the Company-operative Party until 1942.
He died in Willesden aged 77.