Sir Ralph Edgar Perring, 1st Baronet (23 March 1905 – 28 June 1998) was a British businessman who was elected the 635th Lord Mayor of London.
[1] He was born the youngest son of Colonel Sir John Perring and his wife Florence Higginson and was educated at University College School, London.
During the Second World War he served as a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery until he was invalided out of the Army in 1940.
He was knighted in the 1960 New Year Honours[2] and created a baronet (of Frensham Manor in the County of Surrey) on 27 November 1963.
He was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir John Raymond Perring, 2nd Baronet.