Francis Barrow Pearce Explained

Francis Barrow Pearce (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)

Notes and References

1. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
2. UK, British Army Lists, 1882-1962
3. News: Deaths. The Times. 16 June 1926.
4. News: Sir H.C. Belfield appointed High Commissioner. The Times. 18 April 1914.