(1785-1819) US naval officer. During the Anglo-American War 1812–14 he played a decisive role in securing American control of Lake Erie. Ordered there in 1813, he was responsible for the decisive victory over the British at the Battle of Put-in-Bay and participated in the Battle of the Thames.
Perry, born in South Kingston, Rhode Island, began his naval career 1799 as a midshipman and saw action in the Tripolitan War. He died of fever while on a cruise to South America.

(1794-1858) US naval officer, commander of the expedition of 1853 that reopened communication between Japan and the outside world after 250 years' isolation. A show of evident military superiority, the use of steamships (thought by the Japanese to be floating volcanoes), and an exhibition of US technical superiority enabled him to negotiate the Treaty of Kanagawa 1854, granting the US trading rights with Japan.
Born in Newport, Rhode Island, he fought in the War of 1812 and the Mexican War 1847. In the early 1800s he helped to found the African state of Liberia for free US blacks, and in the 1830s and 1840s he developed an engineering corps for the US navy. He was the younger brother of Oliver Hazard Perry.

(Frederick John) (1909-1995)
English lawn-tennis player, the last Briton to win the men's singles at Wimbledon, 1936. He also won the world table-tennis title 1929. Perry later became a television commentator and a sports-goods manufacturer.
Career highlights
Lawn tennis
Wimbledon
Singles: 1934–36
Mixed: 1935–36
French Open
Singles: 1935
Doubles: 1933
Mixed: 1932
Australian Open
Singles: 1934
Doubles: 1934
Us Open
Singles: 1933–34, 1936
Mixed: 1932
Table tennis
World Championships
Singles: 1929
English Championships
Doubles: 1928–30
Mixed: 1929

ETYM Old Fren. peré, French poiré, from poire a pear, Latin pirum. Related to Pear the fruit.
A fermented and often effervescent beverage made from juice of pears; similar in taste to hard cider.
Ciderlike drink made from pears.
Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to hard cider, but made from pears, produced mainly in Normandy and the English West Country.

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