John Thomas Woolrych Perowne

Lieutenant-Colonel John Thomas Woolrych Perowne BA, MA, VD, TD (1 June 1863–27 April 1954) was a British Army officer, a King's Messenger and a Gold Staff Officer at the Coronation of King George VI in 1937.

Born in Lampeter in Wales in 1863, the eldest son of Anna Maria (née Woolrych) and the Right Reverend John James Stewart Perowne, the Vice-Principal of St David’s College, Lampeter, John Perowne attended Haileybury School before going to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1882 where he obtained a B.A. in 1885 and an M.A. in 1889. He played cricket for the College side in 1885.

By 1889 Perowne was a lieutenant in the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment and by 1894 was a captain. In 1898 his book Russian Hosts and English Guests in Central Asia was published by Scientific Press. In 1901 he was a Director of Samuel Allsopp & Sons in Burton upon Trent. In March 1902 he was appointed an Esquire of the Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in England, and in 1903 he was awarded the Volunteer Officers' Decoration (VD). He contested unsuccessfully as a Liberal Unionist seats in the South Molton Division of Devon (January and December 1910) and the Isle of Wight (1922).