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| name = Sir Thomas Erskine Perry
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1806|7|20|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]], Surrey, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1882|4|22|1806|7|20|df=yes}}
| death_place = London, England
| nationality = British
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| relations = [[James Perry (journalist)|James Perry]] (father)
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'''Sir Thomas Erskine Perry''' (20 July 1806 – 22 April 1882) was a British [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] politician and judge in [[India]]. After serving as chief justice of the supreme court in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] and as a [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] in Britain, he served as a member of the [[Council of India]] for 21 years.

==Early and personal life==
Perry was born in Wimbledon to [[James Perry (journalist)|James Perry]] and his wife, Anne, in 1806. He was educated at [[Charterhouse School]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], before studying in [[Munich]].<ref>{{acad|id=PRY823TE|name=Perry, Thomas Erskine}}</ref> Perry unsuccessfully stood for the seat of [[Chatham (UK Parliament constituency)|Chatham]] at the [[1832 United Kingdom general election|1832 general election]].

Perry married Louisa McElkiney in 1834. After her death in India in 1841, he married Elizabeth Margaret Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, second daughter of [[Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baronet|Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, Bt]], in 1855.

==Career==
Perry was admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in 1827 before moving to the [[Inner Temple]] in 1832. He was [[called to the bar]] in 1834 and worked as a law reporter. He was appointed to serve as a judge of the [[supreme court]] in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] and was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in February 1841.<ref name="LGKnighthood" /> He served as chief justice from 1847 to 1852, and he was president of the Indian board of education for ten years. He also lectured on law outside of court, and his support for educational and employment opportunities for Indians meant a professorship, the Perry Professorship of [[Jurisprudence]], at the [[Government Law College, Mumbai|Government Law School]] at [[Elphinstone College|Elphinstone]] was established in 1855 in his honour.<ref name="GLCAbout" /> He translated [[Friedrich Carl von Savigny]]'s work on [[Roman law]].

After returning to England, Perry stood for [[Liverpool (UK Parliament constituency)|Liverpool]] in the [[1853 Liverpool by-election|1853 by-election]]. Again unsuccessful, he gained the seat of [[Plymouth Devonport (UK Parliament constituency)|Devonport]] in [[1854 Devonport by-election|1854]]. He spoke in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] on the [[East India Company]]'s rule in India and property rights for married women. He left parliament in 1859 following his appointment to the [[Council of India]],<ref name="LGCouncil" /> on which he served until 1882.

After falling ill and being unable to be sworn of the [[Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council|Privy Council]], Perry died in 1882 in London.

==Works==
*(trans.) ''Von Savigny's Treatise on possession, or, The jus possessionis of the civil law translated from the German'', 1848
* ''Cases illustrative of oriental life and the application of English law to India, decided in H. M. Supreme Court at Bombay'', 1853

==Footnotes==
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<ref name="LGKnighthood">{{London Gazette|issue=19953|page=400|date=16 February 1841}}</ref>

<ref name="GLCAbout">{{cite web|url=http://glc.edu/incept.asp|title=About us|publisher=[[Government Law College, Mumbai|Government Law College]]|accessdate=2009-09-15|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090622081119/http://www.glc.edu/incept.asp|archivedate=22 June 2009|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

<ref name="LGCouncil">{{London Gazette|issue=22296|page=3037|date=9 August 1859}}</ref>
}}

==References==
*{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22000|title=Perry, Sir Thomas Erskine (1806–1882)|last1=Barker|first1=G. F. R.|last2=Prior|first2=Katherine|editor1-first=Katherine|editor1-last=Prior|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/22000|accessdate=2009-09-15}}
*{{cite web|url=http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/biog/display/?bid=Perry_E|title=Thomas Erskine Perry, 1806 or 1807–1881|work=The Correspondence of [[James McNeill Whistler]]|publisher=[[University of Glasgow]]|accessdate=2009-09-15}}

== External links ==
* {{Hansard-contribs | sir-thomas-perry | Thomas Erskine Perry }}
* {{worldcat id|lccn-n89-113431}}

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| with = [[George Berkeley (British Army officer)|George Berkeley]] 1854–1857
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