Petitpierre, Bernard Ernest, brother of Max Charles Petitpierre (qv); b. 4 Oct. 1909; adm. Sept. 1923 (A), non-res. KS Sept. 1924; left July 1928; a co. director; hon. IQPS 1988; m. 1st 22 Apr. 1939 Gwendolin Lynch, d. of Lucien de Bernardy, geologist, of Ealing; 2nd 25 July 1970 Valerie Janet, d. of Herbert Alfred Atwood, co. director, of Sevenoaks, Kent; d. 6 Sept. 2000.

Peters, Francis Lovell, son of James Lovell Peters, of Bude, Cornwall, solicitor, by Elizabeth Charlotte Sophia, daughter of Gen. Septimus Harding Becher, of Eastbourne, Sussex; b. May 6, 1878; adm. Sept. 24, 1891 (A); left Dec. 1894; joined the Indian Police, Bengal, as Assist. Supt. Nov. 23, 1897; District Supt. April 1, 1906; officiating Deputy Inspector-Gen., Dacca Range, June 20, 1920; retired Aug. 5, 1925; m. Jan. 8, 1913; Muriel Maude Ella Deschamps, daughter of Adrian Charles Chamier, of South Kensington; d. Jan. 3, 1936.

Perrett, Desmond Seymour, son of John Perrett, Circuit Judge, of Lichfield, Staffs, and Elizabeth Mary, d. of William Seymour, farmer and landowner, of Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland; b. 22 Apr. 1937; adm. Sept. 1951 (A); left July 1954; Midshipman RN 1955-7, served Suez and Cyprus; called to the Bar, Gray’s Inn Feb. 1962, Bencher 1989; Oxford Circuit 1962-72, Midland and Oxford Circuit 1972-92; Recorder of the Crown Court 1978-92; QC 1980; Senate of Inns of Court and of the Bar 1983-8; Circuit Judge 1992-2005; m. 27 May 1961 Pauline Merriel, d. of Paul Robert Buchan May (qv, Vol. III); d. 18 Mar. 2010.

Perkins, Michael Gerard Laurence, brother of Alan Christopher Temple Perkins (q.v.); b. Sept. 22, 1898; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 26, 1912 (A); elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1917, matric. Michaelmas 1919; 1st class Nat. Science, pt. 1, and B.A. 1922; 1st class Nat. Science, pt. 2, 1923; M.A. 1926; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. (S.R.) Jan. 6, 1918; King's Coll. Lond.; Warneford Med. Scholar; Univ. exhib.; Mackinnon Research Student of the Royal Society 1926; Westminster Hospital 1927; Ph.D. (Cantab.) 1930; the Michael Perkins fund at Cambridge was established in his memory; d. March 14, 1932.

Perkins, Alan Christopher Temple, son of the Rev. Jocelyn Henry Temple Perkins, Minor Canon of Westminster Abbey, by Emma Zillah, eldest daughter of Alfred Claude Taylor, M.D., of Nottingham; b. June 15, 1897; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 22, 1910 (A); left July 1915; 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. (S.R.) Nov. 27, 1915; served in France with 8th Anti-Aircraft Battery; wounded Oct. 1916; seconded to R.F.C. May 1917, and served with 35th Squadron; wounded Nov. 1917; Lieut. R.A.F. April 1, 1918; served with 20th Squadron until March 1919; M.C. Oct. 18, 1917; King's Coll. Hospital; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1923; M.B. and B.S. (Lond.) 1924; Warneford Scholar 1925; Resident Med. Officer, King's Coll. Hospital, Dec. 1924; M.D. 1927; Hempson Essay Prize of the Brit. Medical Association 1929; Asst. Medical Officer, West Suffolk County Council, 1927-9, and Middlesex County Council, 1930-40; Deputy Medical Officer of Health, Middlesex County Council, 1940-8; Medical Officer of Health, Middlesex County Council, 1948; m April 30, 1927, Doris Macdonald, only daughter of Percy Speedy, A.M.l.E.E., of Worcester Park, Surrey.

Pereira, Horace Felix de Courcy, son of Sir Horace Alvarez de Courcy Pereira, Sen. Registrar Principal Probate Registry, and Christian Mary Isabel, d. of George Gordon of Croydon, Sur­rey; b. 10 Sept. 1906; adm. Sept. 1918 (A), KS 1920; left July 1925; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1925, BA 1929, MA 1950; Harvard Univ., EdM 1954; a financial consultant; sen. vice-pres. First National Bank of Boston, USA; served Governor's Commissions Massachusetts 1965-69; retd 1970; m. 30 Apr. 1930 Beatrice Marie, d. of Edward Bowie of Sharon, Mass., USA.; d. 6 Sept. 2000.

Peerless, Gordon Read, son of Bartholomew Peerless, of Streatham, by Rose Gertrude, daughter of Frederick Charles Smith, of Clapham Common; b. Feb. 19, 1903; adm. May 2, 1917 (A); left April 1919; a member of the London Stock Exchange March 1925; chairman successively of Haigs Cooperage Ltd. 1957-60 and the Stock Brokers Mutual Reference Soc. since 1961; Pilot Officer (A. and S.D.) R.A.F.V.R. Sept. 18, 1940; Flying Officer Sept. 18, 1941; Flight-Lieut. Jan. 1, 1943; m. Oct. 27, 1928, Ida Constance, daughter of Henry Charles Holdup, of Streatham; d. 1975.

Peak, Paul E. Sever, son of W. H. Peak of Kensington; b. 13 Apr. 1908; adm. May 1922 (A); left July 1926; 2nd Lieut. RE (TA) Sept. 1939, transf. RA Aug. 1940 (Maj.); m. 6 May 1937 Marjorie McCrimmon; d. 2003.

Paxon, Hamilton Cunninghame, son of Leonard Gillingham Paxon of Beckenham, Kent, and Jean Howie of Felmersham, Beds; b. 23 July 1908; adm. Sept. 1922 (A); left July 1925; Univ. of Durham, BA 1934, MA 1937; ord. deacon 1934, priest 1935 (Southwark); Curate St Stephen's Wandsworth 1934-6, St Matthew's Croydon 1936-45; Vicar of St George the Martyr Deal 1945, St Stephen's Dulwich 1954; m. 1936 Gwendoline Peters; d. 7 Dec. 1955.