COLIN PERRY, BORN 1940
BUSINESSMAN
Born into a country family passionately keen on hunting, Colin Perry was educated at Winchester College, Clare College Cambridge, and the INSEAD business school in France. Colin Perry’s business career started at Corn Products, followed by spells in Metra Consulting and International Computerprint. But Colin first came to public notice when he took over as Managing Director and then Chairman at the Birmingham Mint where he propelled the business from a turnover of £2.8 million and no profit to a turnover of £44 million and a profit of £4 million. He left the Mint in 1989 and bought LTE Scientific where he was owner and Chairman. Alongside this business career Colin was deeply involved with the Confederation of British Industry ending up as Chairman of the CBI’s Small and Medium Enterprises Committee. Probably his most important contribution was his participation in the Company Law Review which instigated the first changes to UK company law for forty years. He was an energetic traveller, and shared his parents’ passion for hunting.
Source: This account of Colin Perry’s life was given at his funeral on 4th March 2022 at Shelsley Beauchamp by his friend Bill Andrewes.