Sir Edwin Cooper Perry, GCVO (1856–1938) was a physician and medical administrator who became Vice-Chancellor of the University of London.
[1] He was born in Darlaston, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England on 10 September 1856, the only son of Edwin Cresswell Perry who became a schoolteacher in Castle Bromwich in 1859 and then vicar of Seighford, Staffordshire, in 1861, where Perry spent his early years.
He was initially educated by his father and then won a scholarship to Eton[1] where he was head of school.
He was awarded GCVO in 1935 in recognition of services to the Prince of Wales's Hospital Fund.
Along with his colleague, Sir Alfred Fripp, he had been knighted in 1903 for service to the Reform Committee of the Royal Army Medical Corps - including the setting-up of the Royal Army Medical College at Millbank, London.