Humphrey and Thomas Persehouse

Thomas Persehouse (or Persehowse) was buried in the south cloister of Westminster Abbey on 7th January 1720. He was a son of William, a barrister, and his wife Ellen (Broughton). His first wife was a Miss Atkinson and his second Mary Style. He died aged 82.

His daughter Elizabeth married Peter Martell. His son Humphrey was a Minor Canon of the Abbey from 1710-1762 and also minister of Knightsbridge chapel from 1719. He was educated at Merchant Taylors school and Oxford. His wife was Deborah Rawlins and he was buried on 2nd February 1762 aged 76 with his father. Four of their young children were buried at the Abbey between 1712 and 1719. Their son Clare was baptised at St Margaret's Westminster and buried with his father on 23rd August 1779 aged 70 and unmarried. Another son Thomas became a clergyman and their daughters were Anne, Jane and Margaret, one of whom married twice without her father's consent. The family never seem to have had an inscribed gravestone.