John Perry

John Perry (1743 – 7 November 1810) was the founder of the Blackwall Yard, where he built ships largely for the East India Company. He was buried at St Matthias Old Church, Poplar. Ephraim Seehl, an apothecary and chemist, was married to his sister Sarah. In 1796 his wife, Elizabeth, died, and less than a month later his second daughter, Sarah, married George Green, whom Perry had taken as apprentice a dozen years previously. In 1798 Perry married Green's sister Mary. He retired to Moor Hall, near Harlow and was appointed High Sheriff of Essex.