Francis Barrow Pearce
British imperial administrator and author
About Francis Barrow Pearce
Lived 1866 – 1926 (aged 59).
Francis Barrow Pearce (16 September 1866 – 11 June 1926) 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.
In 1920, his Zanzibar: the Island Metropolis of Eastern Africa was published in Great Britain by T. F. Unwin.
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Who was Francis Barrow Pearce?
British imperial administrator and author (1866-1926)
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Francis Barrow Pearce was born on 16 September 1866.
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Francis Barrow Pearce died on 11 June 1926.
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