Perrott was elder son of Sir Edward George Lambert Perrott, 4th Baronet (died 1886) by his wife Emma Maria Houghton (died 1878), only daughter of Charles Evelyn Houghton, commander R.N., descended in the female line, from John Evelyn.

It was claimed that he was created a baronet on 1 July 1716 with limitation to his brother and the heirs male of his body, in reward for eminent diplomatic services, but no patent was registered in the College of Arms.

The 3rd Baronet, Sir Edward Bindloss Perrott (1784–1859) married in 1810, Louisa Augusta Bayly (died 1860, aged 81), a niece of Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, and cousin of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, K.G, already a notable war hero.

He died from influenza and bronchial pneumonia at his home in Queen's Gate on 15 February 1922.

[5] He married on 10 December 1901 at St Peter's Eaton Square, London, Ethel Lucy Hare (1875–1939[6]), eldest daughter of the late Captain Marcus Augustus Stanley Hare, R.N., of Court Grange, Newton Abbott.