Mary Perkins an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year UK Lifetime Achievement Award for her continued contribution to entrepreneurship and the economy. Perkins is a founding patron of the not-for-profit social enterprise, Modern Muse. Mary Perkins Dame Mary Lesley Perkins, (born 14 February 1944) is co-founder of Specsavers, the British retail opticians chain. Together with her husband, co-founder and chairman Doug Perkins, Dame Mary has three children, all of whom work for Specsavers, and are eventually expected to take over the privately owned company. She attended Fairfield Grammar School in Bristol. She then went to Cardiff University to train as an optometrist. At
Marratt and Ellis Opticians the intersection to the memory of the Sailor King. During this period, pictorial records of the statue, with the opticians directly behind, show how the area developed from the 1830s to the 1940s and prints and later photographs, show the changing life, and transport from hand carts to horse-drawn carriages, trolley buses and finally motor vehicles. These prints of the original engravings can be seen at the British Library, and many photos are in the Francis Frith Collection. The statue was moved to Greenwich Park in 1935. Marratt and Ellis Opticians Marratt & Ellis Opticians was a company established in