The Perryn House Estate in 1897

Richard Perryn was living in Twickenham by 1764 in a property facing the bend in the London Road just north of the stone bridge over the River Crane. Known later as Perryn House and occupied for many years by the Twining family, the property was demolished in 1910.

An eminent lawyer, he was made a Baron of the Exchequer on 26 April 1776, and was knighted on the same day.

Perryn’s memorial in St Mary’s Church

He married Mary Browne (d1795) and there were three sons and a daughter of the marriage. Two sons entered the army and the third the church.

Perryn retired from the bench in the long vacation of 1799, and died at his house at Twickenham on 2 January 1803, aged 79. He was buried on the 10th of the same month in ‘the new burial-ground’ at Twickenham, and a tablet was erected to his memory in the south chancel wall of the old parish church.

 His daughter inherited the property and married Alexander Hatfield. Their daughter Frances married a grandson of Edward Lovibond.

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