About Frederick Perkins
Lived 1826 – 1902 (aged 76). Frederick Perkins was a British politician.
Sir Frederick Perkins (2 June 1826 – 8 November 1902) was a British Liberal Party politician, brewer, and wine and spirit merchant.
Political career Perkins began his political career as a Liberal town councillor for Southampton's All Saints Ward in the 1850s, and shortly after that became Mayor of Southampton, a role he held on five occasions: in 1859, 1861, 1862, 1868, and 1869. During his mayoralty, he received the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) on their way to Osborne House after their wedding in 1863.
He married again in 1858 to Isabella Bloomfield Croskey (d. 1885), daughter of Joseph Rodney Croskey, American Consul at Southampton. They had six children: Rodney Croskey (born 1859), Richard Harry (born 1864), Julian Tolmé (born 1867), Teresa Macombe, Evelina Daisy, and Amy Bloomfield.
Perkins died at Southampton on 8 November 1902.
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Who was Frederick Perkins?
politician, died 1902
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Frederick Perkins was born on 2 June 1826 in Southampton.
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Frederick Perkins died on 8 November 1902 in London.
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Frederick Perkins was a politician.
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Frederick Perkins was British.
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