Walter Copland Perry
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Walter Copland Perry was a noted British author and barrister.
A student of the Middle Temple
, who matriculated 12 January 1847, Perry was called to the bar 31 January 1851.
An accomplished historian and classicist, Walter Copland Perry published The Franks, From Their First Appearance in History to the Death of King Pepin (1857), The Women of Homer, Sancta Paula; a Romance of the Fourth Century, A.D. (1902) and Sicily in fable, history, art, and song (1908).
Perry was the only son of Rev. Isaac Perry, of Liverpool. In 1889 he married Evelyn Stopford (1858— ). 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.
A student of the Middle Temple
Middle Temple
The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers; the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn...
, who matriculated 12 January 1847, Perry was called to the bar 31 January 1851.
An accomplished historian and classicist, Walter Copland Perry published The Franks, From Their First Appearance in History to the Death of King Pepin (1857), The Women of Homer, Sancta Paula; a Romance of the Fourth Century, A.D. (1902) and Sicily in fable, history, art, and song (1908).
Perry was the only son of Rev. Isaac Perry, of Liverpool. In 1889 he married Evelyn Stopford (1858— ). 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.