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George Perry (1719 – 3 February 1771) was an English engineer, ironmaster, merchant, draughtsman and cartographer. ==Biography== Perry was a native of Somerset and was related to Micajah Perry, Lord Mayor of London in 1747. His family was well known in the area and Perry was "intended for the church". However Perry joined the iron works at Coalbrookdale, where he worked with John Wilkinson. While there, he made successful trials for boring cannon from solid iron.〔Henry Smithers, ''Liverpool, its commerce, statistics, and institutions'', (pp. 419-420 )〕 With Thomas Smith of Derby he designed views of Coalbrookdale which were engraved by François Vivares. These are among the earliest industrial landscapes. Perry later became the first manager of Liverpool's Phoenix Foundry. A man of many talents, outside his work as an iron founder and merchant his energy was directed towards many diffuse interests, such as map-making, the history of Liverpool, and the writing of poetry.〔John Hussey, 'The Magnificent Map', in ''Cruisers, Cotton and Confederates: Liverpool Waterfront in the Days of the Confederacy'' (2008), (p. 197 )〕 Perry was an early promoter of the benefits of new canals. In 1758, shortly after the opening of the early Sankey Canal, Perry wrote an article which appeared in ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' in which he proposed the construction of an "inland water conveyance from London to Gloucester, Worcester and Bristol, or from Liverpool to Hull".〔 In 1758 Perry founded a Liverpool branch of the Ironbridge foundry, later to become the Fawcett, Preston Engineering Company, although initially simply a warehouse.〔(FAWCETT, PRESTON ENGINEERING CO., LTD ) at nationalarchives.gov.uk〕 In 1765, Perry married Lydia Ann Lacroy (or ''De La Croix''), who was of a family of Huguenots. The street in which his foundry stood was named in her honour Lydia Ann Street.〔〔A. Nonagenarian, ''Recollections of Old Liverpool'' (The Echo Library reprint, 2009), p. 65: "Lydia Ann-street after Mademoiselle Lydia Ann De La Croix, who married Mr. Perry, the originator of Fawcett's foundry, and the Coal Brook Dale iron works."〕 With Peter Perez Burdett Perry had planned a map of Liverpool, together with a history and views by Michael Angelo Rooker, though the latter project did not all come together in its initial conception before his death. In 1769, assisted by William Yates, Perry produced his masterpiece as a cartographer, a large map entitled 'The New and Accurate Plan of the Town and Port of Leverpool'.〔〔(Sheet No. 46: Liverpool Town Maps and Regional District Maps ) at liverpoolmuseums.org.uk〕〔Ramsay Muir, ''A History of Liverpool'' (1907), p. 180〕 In 2008 this was on public display at the Walker Art Gallery and proved to be a centre of attention.〔 Perry died on 3 February 1771 at the age of fifty-two, to be buried at Toxteth Park in the Park Chapel, also called the 'Ancient Chapel'.〔 On a wall of the chapel is a memorial tablet, reading ''An Essay towards the History of Leverpool'' (1773) by William Enfield was based on Perry’s collections, and has been called the first history of Liverpool.〔''The Arian Movement'', (p. 74 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Perry (engineer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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