Paterson, Fergus Iain McDougal (known at school as Fergus Dow Paterson, son of Frederick Graham Paterson, barrister-at-law, of Teddington, Middx, and Margaret Elizabeth Hunter, d. of John McDougal of Cove, Dunbartonshire; b. 9 Mar. 1911; adm. Sept. 1924 (A); left July 1928; St Mary's Hosp. Med. Sch., MB 1935; LSA 1934, DPM 1939; RAMC in WW2 (Maj.); called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) June 1948; d. 3 Aug. 1975.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.