About Thomas Pears
Lived 1809 – 1892 (aged 82). Thomas Pears was a military leader.
Major-General Sir Thomas Townsend Pears KCB (9 May 1809 – 17 January 1892) was a senior British Indian Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary to the India Office.
Military career Pears was educated at Addiscombe Military Seminary, and commissioned into the Madras Engineers in 1825.
In 1836 he was appointed Commanding Officer of the Madras Sappers and Miners and in that capacity went on to be Chief Engineer for the expedition to Karnal in India in 1839 and for the capture of Chusan in China in 1840. He was appointed KCB in 1871 and retired in 1877.
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British Indian Army general (1809–1892)
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Thomas Pears was born on 9 May 1809.
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Thomas Pears died on 17 January 1892.
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Thomas Pears was a military leader.
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