Famous Cricketers No 95 - P.A.Perrin

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack , various editions from 1897 to 1946 World of Cricket magazine, 1914. Newspapers : The Daily Telegraph , various years from 1904 to 1946 Keble's Margate and Ramsgate Gazette , various years from 1891 to 1897 The Leytonstone Express and Independent , various years from 1895 to 1945 The Tottenham and Edmonton Weekly Herald , various years from 1892 to 1946 The Times , various years from 1896 to 1946. Perrin's own first-class performances are mostly as recorded in the Essex scorebooks: the figures given above are consistent with those given in the database at cricketarchive.co.uk as at 30 January 2005. Thanks With the exception of Essex County Cricket Club, Lord's, and his homes at Muswell Hill and Hickling, many of the organisations and buildings which were associated with Percy Perrin no longer exist. The house where he was born, the schools which he attended, the public houses which he and his brother ran, the cricket club where he first played, and most of the property he inherited from his parents no longer exist. His grandchildren live in Australia. The Leyton ground where he played over two hundred matches for Essex has not seen first-class cricket for thirty years. Hence, some of the important aspects of Perrin's background have been difficult to research. I am therefore most grateful for the help and encouragement I have received from Philip Bailey, Trevor Bailey, the late Peter Baines, Kit Bartlett, Brenda Cannon, Hugh Garrod, Stephen Green, Peter Griffiths, Mike Haywood, Gerald Hudd, Douglas Insole, Patrick Jeater, Ivor Kemp, the late Derek Lodge, Michael Perrin, David Pracy, Michael Ronayne, Ray Swain, Michael Tanner, the late Philip Thorn and Peter Wynne-Thomas in finding a way through the débris. I am, of course, particularly grateful to Douglas Insole for contributing, in the year of his MCC Presidency, the foreword about his predecessor as Essex player and Test selectors' chairman. When the manuscript was almost complete, I was especially pleased to find and to receive willing help from Percy's grandson, Michael Perrin in Queensland with details of his grandfather's family life. I have also received freely-given professional help from staff at the Bruce Castle Museum at Tottenham, Essex County Record Office and the Essex County Cricket Club at Chelmsford, Guildhall Library in the City of London, Hackney Archives Department, Margate Library Local Studies Room, MCC Library at Lord's, Newham Archives and Local History Library at Stratford, Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation at Paulerspury, and in particular, Vestry House Museum at Walthamstow. In addition I have to thank my wife, Jenny for her forbearance, and for not deleting the file 'persiflage' on the computer. 83