Specsavers a new range from Kylie Minogue launched in 2017. The co-founder of Specsavers, Mary Perkins, was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2007, in recognition of her services to business and the community in Guernsey. In April 2004, Specsavers acquired Swedish Blic Optik franchise from its owner Optimum Optik AB. In 2007, finance director John Perkins became joint managing director, with his father Doug Perkins. In The Sunday Times Rich List 2011, published in the United Kingdom on 8 May 2011, Douglas and Dame Mary Perkins and family
Mary Perkins (nurse) service when her brother was injured in the war. Perkins married Andrew Perkins in April 1865. She died on November 18, 1893. Mary Perkins (nurse) Mary Perkins (May 5, 1839 – November 18, 1893) was a Union nurse during the American Civil War. Perkins was born on May 5, 1839, in Brewer, Maine. She later moved to Enfield, Maine until the outbreak of the Civil War. Perkins enlisted in 1861 as a nurse for the 11th Maine Volunteer Infantry. Shortly after, she accompanied the regiment to Washington, D.C., where she served at Brigade Hospital. In March 1862, the regiment moved,