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Samuel Frederick Perry (
29 June 1877 –
19 October 1954), was a
Labour Co-operative politician in the
United Kingdom. He was the father of the British
tennis and
table tennis champion
Fred Perry.
Sam Perry began his education with a scholarship at the
Stockport Grammar School but was forced to give up school at the age of ten when his father died, becoming a
cotton spinner like his father. He became involved in the local
co-operative movement with the
Stockport Co-operative Society then
Birkenhead and on the creation of the
Co-operative Party in 1917 was appointed its first national secretary.
Appointment as the senior official in the Party brought Perry to London with nine year old Fred. The family lived on the co-operatively run
Brentham Estate in
Ealing, where Fred was able to use the tennis courts and cricket pitch. Sam Perry unsuccessfully contested the 2-member
Stockport constituency at a
by-election in1920 and again at the subsequent
1922 general election.
Perry was elected at the
1923 general election as
Member of Parliament for
Kettering in
Northamptonshire, defeating the
Conservative MP
Owen Parker. He lost the seat at the
1924 election to the Conservative Sir
Mervyn Manningham-Buller, and won it back at the
1929 election, but was defeated again at the
1931 general election by the Conservative
John Eastwood.
Perry continued as national secretary of the Co-operative Party until 1942.
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