Lambeth Conference in 1888 and the Fourth in 1897. He was a hereditary member of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati, a founding member of The Sons of the Revolution in Iowa, and also a member of the Massachusetts Commandery of the Naval Order of the United States. He was also a member of the Masonic Brotherhood Later life and death Bishop Perry was in poor health during the latter part of his life and took several trips to Europe to recuperate. While he was on visitation to Northeast Iowa, Bishop Perry suffered a paralytic stroke on May 12, 1898, and died the following day. His funeral was held in St. John’s Church in Dubuque and he was buried in the churchyard of the Church of St. James the Less in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Honors Perry received several honorary degrees. In 1869 he received a Doctor of Sacred Theology from Trinity College in Dublin, and the College of William and Mary awarded him a Doctor of Laws in 1876. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1882. Oxford University awarded him a Doctor of Divinity in 1888 when he was in England for the Lambeth Conference. He was made an Honorary Chaplain of the Venerable Order of St John in England on 9 May 1898. Writings Among his writings are: Documentary History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (1863–1864), with Dr. F. L. Hawks Historical Collections of the American Colonial Church (five volumes, 1871–1878) Historical Notes and Documents Illustrating the Organization of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America (1874) Historical Sketch of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 1784–1884 (1884) Literature William Stevens Perry, Episcopate in America (1895), sketch and bibliography References External links Documents by and about William Stevens Perry from Project Canterbury 1832 births 1898 deaths American educators American religious writers Brown University alumni Burials at the Church of St. James the Less Harvard University alumni Historians of the American Revolution Historians of the Thirteen Colonies People from Davenport, Iowa Clergy from Providence, Rhode Island Episcopal bishops of Iowa 19th-century Anglican bishops in the United States Members of the American Antiquarian Society General Society of Colonial Wars