 The estate of Membland in the parish of Holbeton had been purchased by John Perring's uncle Peter Perring from John Bulteel (1733–1801), who had no further use for it having inherited the adjacent estate of Flete from his young nephew Courtenay Croker Bulteel of Flete and Lyneham, Yealmpton.Sir John Perring occupied Membland Hall in 1799 and from 1816 to 1827.He was created an alderman in the City of London's Broad Street ward on 13 January 1798 as a clothworker.