British imperial administrator and author (1866-1926)
Francis Barrow Pearce CMG (16 September 1866[1][2] – 11 June 1926)[3] was a British imperial administrator and author.
He was acting Commissioner of Nyasaland (now Malawi) from 1 April 1907 to September 1907 and acting Governor of Nyasaland from 1 April 1910 to 4 July 1910. In 1914, he became British Resident in Zanzibar, working alongside the protectorate's High Commissioner Henry Conway Belfield.[4]
In 1920, his Zanzibar: the Island Metropolis of Eastern Africa was published in Great Britain by T. F. Unwin.
Bibliography
- Zanzibar: the Island Metropolis of Eastern Africa (1920)
- Rambles in Lion Land: Three Months' Leave Passed in Somaliland
Papers
- Le bassin de la haute Wichéra with Louis Duparc and Margarita N. Tikhonovich in Volume 3 of Recherches géologiques et pétrologiques sur l'Oural du nord (1909)
References
- ^ England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
- ^ UK, British Army Lists, 1882-1962
- ^ "Deaths". The Times. 16 June 1926.
- ^ "Sir H.C. Belfield appointed High Commissioner". The Times. 18 April 1914.