Samuel Perry (ironmaster)
Samuel Perry was an industrialist in the State of South Australia.History
Samuel Perry was the son of John and Harriett Perry of Shropshire, England, and the brother of Rev. Isaiah Perry. He was apprenticed as an iron worker to the Coalbrookdale Company, where he trained as an engineer. At the age of 22, around 1886, he followed his brother to Gawler, South Australia, where he found employment at James Martin's "Phoenix Foundry", living with the Roediger family at nearby Buchfelde. He next worked at Port Adelaide, then as foreman for John Danks & Son of Melbourne. He returned to Adelaide and started his own business with the purchase of James Wedlock's "Cornwall Foundry", the transfer of that factory to new premises Perry Engineering at Mile End, and the purchase of the James Martin & Co. workshops in Gawler. He took on his nephew Frank Perry, who became managing director and company chairman on his death.
He married Mary Jane Rofe of Port Adelaide on 7 March 1894; they had a daughter, and lived at "Brier Holme" at Grove Street, Unley Park. He was a member of the Royal SA Yacht Squadron; his motor yacht Isis was the largest in South Australia.Family
John Perry and Harriett Perry of Shropshire, England, had two sons who emigrated to South Australia:
- Rev. Isaiah Perry born at Lawley Bank, Dawley, Shropshire married Caroline Marie Pauline Roediger on 8 October 1884
- Samuel Perry married Mary Jane Rofe on 7 March 1894, lived at "Brier Holme" Grove Street Unley Park
