803 Sir Frederick Perkins

Constituency  : Southampton   1874 -80

Frederick  took  one  of  the  Southampton  seats  from  the  Tories.

Frederick  was  the  son  of  a  furniture  merchant. He  was  mayor  of  Southampton  5  times. He  was  knighted  in  1873.

Frederick  was  a  pallbearer  when  Dr  Livingstone's  body  was  received  at  Southampton.
 He  agitated  for  Southampton  to  be  the  home  of  the  Royal  Naval  College.

He  died  in  1902  aged  76.