George Perry (priest)

George Gresley Perry (1820–1897) was an English churchman and academic, known as a church historian and Archdeacon of Stow.

Born at Churchill, Somerset, he was the twelfth and youngest child of William Perry, a friend and neighbour of Hannah More.

John Allen, and in 1837 he won a scholarship on the Bath and Wells foundation at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

with a second class in literae humaniores, and obtained the Wells fellowship at Lincoln College, Oxford with the support of Mark Pattison.

A tablet to his memory in Waddington church and a window in the chapter house of Lincoln Cathedral were erected by subscription.