Modern English biography

794 (1870). PEARSE, GEORGE. _b._ 1797; assist. surgeon Madras medical establishment 1824, and surgeon 25 March 1837; sec. to the medical board of the presidency 1837–48; superintendent surgeon Mysore division 1851; principal inspector general of hospitals, Madras 11 July 1859, retired from the service 20 April 1861; hon. physician to her majesty Sept. 1861 to death. _d._ Cheltenham 28 March 1885. _Times 2 April 1885 p._ 7. PEARSE, GEORGE. _b._ Hatherleigh, near Okehampton, Devon 1852; solicitor at Hatherleigh 1874 to death; ensign 18th Devonshire volunteers 11 Oct. 1870; major fourth battalion of Devonshire regiment 10 Jany. 1877 to death; won queen’s prize Wimbledon 1875, and tied for the final 1890; one of the British team in U.S. America to meet the American National guard, and made highest aggregate score. _d._ Uplands, Okehampton 4 Jany. 1894. PEARSE, JOHN. _b._ 17 May 1780; entered R.N. 1793; present at siege of Copenhagen 1807; commanded Wickham revenue cutter on Irish coast 1817–20; commander 27 May 1825; contributed to United service journal 1842 and 1843; author of Papers on naval architecture, Plymouth 1835. _d._ 1864. _O’Byrne’s Naval biog._ (1849) 882. PEARSE, RICHARD BULKELEY (son of B. Pearse of Munkham, Woodford). _b._ 1830; entered navy 14 March 1842; mate of the Resolute in the Arctic expedition 1850–1; severely frost-bitten and eventually lost a leg for which granted pension of £150 in 1864; Pearse inlet on the west coast of Bathurst Island was named after him; served as flag lieutenant in the Baltic during the Russian war 1854–5; commanded the Acorn during Chinese war 1858–60; captain 15 April 1862, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 19 June 1888; F.R.G.S. _d._ 9 Hyde park st. London 19 Nov. 1895. _Times 22 Nov. 1895 p._ 10. PEARSE, THOMAS. _b._ 1797; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; V. of Westoning, Beds. 20 June 1823 to death, 68 years; V. of Harlington, Beds. 1826–54; author of An address, the substance of two sermons in the parish church of Westoning