Edward Pereira

The Revd Edward Thomas Pereira (26 September 1866 – 25 February 1939) was an English Catholic priest and schoolmaster, who played first-class cricket between 1895 and 1900 for Warwickshire and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).

Life Born at Colwich, Staffordshire, to Eduardo Pereira (1817–1872) and the Hon. Margaret Stonor (1839–1894), he attended the Oratory School at Edgbaston. Influenced by Cardinal Newman, Pereira then became a Roman Catholic priest and schoolmaster. By 1910, Pereira was headmaster of the Oratory School and was in charge at the time of its move from Birmingham to Caversham, near Reading, where his family had owned property. He retired from the headmastership in 1930, being named as Warden in 1934, but was forced by ill health to retire to Birmingham Oratory in 1935 Against the 1896 Australians, Pereira was praised for his fielding, being rated as the finest fielder at point that the Australians had encountered.

His elder brother was George Pereira, the soldier and explorer, and his younger brother was Sir Cecil Pereira, also a distinguished soldier; both brothers were promoted generals.