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Name: PEARCE, Francis Barrow CMG (Major)
Birth Date: 16 Sep 1866 Marylebone, London
Death Date: 11 June 1926 Marylebone
First Date: 1901
Profession: KAR
Author: Zanzibar, the Island Metropolis of Eastern Africa, 1920
Book Reference: Moyse, Who's Who
War Service: 2nd West Yorkshire
School: Cheltenham, Sandhurst
General Information:
Moyse - 1901 - at setting up of KAR he was Acting Deputy Commissioner and Acting Commandant of the armed forces in Zanzibar.
Wikipedia: 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.